Oklahoma to use Nitrogen Gas:  The Oklahoma Attorney announced Wednesday that the state is going to use nitrogen gas instead of lethal injection to euthanize condemned murderers.  Timothy Williams of the New York Times reports that the difficulty in acquiring the preferred drugs for lethal injection sparked the state's interest in moving to the inert, and readily available gas for executions.  The reporter neglected to note that the problem was created by anti-death penalty groups including the European Union, which have pressured drug manufacturers to refuse to sell the drugs for executions.  Oklahoma adopted nitrogen gas as a backup execution method in 2015, with encouragement from CJLF.  The gas has been used for decades to render dental patients unconscious and in places where assisted suicide is legal.  The head of the Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-death penalty group, called the use of nitrogen gas "an experimentation" that would likely cause suffering.