Alabama will execute a convict using nitrogen

[Robert W]

This is perplexing.

Snuff an inmate using Nitrogen?
Who is not aware we all breathe 78 percent Nitrogen?
Alabama intends on January 25 to take a convicts life by forcing him to breathe only Nitrogen.
They probably took the life of animals doing this. We need the O2 to stay alive. So in effect they are smothering this killer. We should applaud them for executing a killer who by the way they tried 3 times already. This killer seems to be superman.
Here is the killer.

 

[Robert Urbanek]

I would think carbon monoxide poisoning would be cheaper. Just run a hose from a vehicle exhaust tailpipe into a small room containing the prisoner.

 

[Votto]

This is perplexing.

Snuff an inmate using Nitrogen?
Who is not aware we all breathe 78 percent Nitrogen?
Alabama intends on January 25 to take a convicts life by forcing him to breathe only Nitrogen.
They probably took the life of animals doing this. We need the O2 to stay alive. So in effect they are smothering this killer. We should applaud them for executing a killer who by the way they tried 3 times already. This killer seems to be superman.
Here is the killer.

Well, it does help is cause that he was born in Michigan.

Just say'in.

 

[Polishprince]

Alabama is over thinking this. Capital punishment has been around since antiquity, is there really any reason to invent new methods when the traditional modes have been so effective?

What's wrong with hanging, decapitation or garroting?

 

[Votto]

Alabama is over thinking this. Capital punishment has been around since antiquity, is there really any reason to invent new methods when the traditional modes have been so effective?

What's wrong with hanging, decapitation or garroting?

I say prop his eyes open with toothpicks and make him watch repeated Joe Biden State of the Unions, or is torture illegal now?

 

[Cellblock2429]

I would think carbon monoxide poisoning would be cheaper. Just run a hose from a vehicle exhaust tailpipe into a small room containing the prisoner.

/---/ Hows abouts sticking his tongue on a Tesla battery terminal to keep it green?

 

[Vastator]

Alabama is over thinking this. Capital punishment has been around since antiquity, is there really any reason to invent new methods when the traditional modes have been so effective?

What's wrong with hanging, decapitation or garroting?

I agree. The firing squad is just fine.

 

[Polishprince]

I agree. The firing squad is just fine.

The only problem with the firing squad is that offering the condemned a last cigarette is the tradition, but public institutions like prisons no longer allow smoking. In addition, a lot of libs are gunphobic. Hanging and garroting are quieter and more earth friendly as they don't cause noise like a firing squad and won't harm the prisoner's health.

 

[Cellblock2429]

The only problem with the firing squad is that offering the condemned a last cigarette is the tradition, but public institutions like prisons no longer allow smoking. In addition, a lot of libs are gunphobic. Hanging and garroting are quieter and more earth friendly as they don't cause noise like a firing squad and won't harm the prisoner's health.

/----/ Would Libs object to Nerf Gun firing squads?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

This is perplexing.

Snuff an inmate using Nitrogen?
Who is not aware we all breathe 78 percent Nitrogen?
Alabama intends on January 25 to take a convicts life by forcing him to breathe only Nitrogen.
They probably took the life of animals doing this. We need the O2 to stay alive. So in effect they are smothering this killer. We should applaud them for executing a killer who by the way they tried 3 times already. This killer seems to be superman.
Here is the killer.

Excellent idea. Nitrogen is cheap, safe and easy.
No need for expensive drugs or injections. Quick and painless.

 

[BlindBoo]

What a travesty! The dude was convicted in 1988. He should have met his maker long ago.

BTW he chose nitrogen suffocation.

 

[rampart]

This is perplexing.

Snuff an inmate using Nitrogen?
Who is not aware we all breathe 78 percent Nitrogen?
Alabama intends on January 25 to take a convicts life by forcing him to breathe only Nitrogen.
They probably took the life of animals doing this. We need the O2 to stay alive. So in effect they are smothering this killer. We should applaud them for executing a killer who by the way they tried 3 times already. This killer seems to be superman.
Here is the killer.

next you'll be telling me carbon dioxide is a poisonous gas!

 

[luiza]

Interesting .

Lethal injection has been the standard method of execution in the U.S. since the 1990s. The original three-drug protocol was developed by an Oklahoma state medical examiner and included the anesthetic sodium thiopental, a paralytic drug called pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride, which is supposed to stop the heart within minutes. Dunham described the latter as “chemical fire.”


Doctors and drug manufacturers have protested lethal injection since its inception, not wanting their products and techniques to be used for killing rather than healing. In 2011 the sole U.S. manufacturer of sodium thiopental stopped producing it. The following year a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia essentially declared that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could no longer allow the drug to be imported from overseas for the purpose of execution.

These changes left states scrambling for another method of execution. Some switched to using a single drug, the barbiturate pentobarbital, which is a sedative and anticonvulsant often used before surgeries or to treat epilepsy. It’s also commonly used in both veterinary and human euthanasia. Other states replaced sodium thiopental with the benzodiazepine midazolam, which is also used as a sedative before medical procedures. Neither pentobarbital nor midazolam function as an anesthetic or pain reliever.

With these changes, problems during lethal injections started to arise more frequently. In the case of John Marion Grant in Oklahoma, the drugs caused vomiting and full-body convulsions over the course of 15 minutes. In an even more horrifying event, in Arizona, Joseph Wood III gasped and snorted for nearly two hours before dying. Most recently, the people carrying out the executions for Joe Nathan James, Jr. and Doyle Lee Hamm in Alabama were unable to insert the IV lines to administer the drugs. This resulted in numerous puncture wounds and incisions in James’s and Hamm’s skin, delaying the former’s execution for hours and halting the latter’s altogether.


“The lethal-injection process, in many respects, created a myth that what you had was a simple medical procedure in which the prisoner was put to sleep,” Dunham says. “That created a false distance between the reality of capital punishment and the public perception of capital punishment.”

Experts now believe that the paralytic used in the original three-drug protocol masked the torture inmates were experiencing. Zivot and others have performed more than 200 autopsies on people killed by lethal injection using thiopental, pentobarbital or midazolam. An NPR investigation of these autopsies found that most inmates’ lungs showed evidence of pulmonary edema, the buildup of fluid that produces a feeling of drowning.

“Instead of falling off to sleep and dying, they were drowning in their own secretions and suffocating to death,

 

[BlindBoo]

masked the torture inmates were experiencing.

What about the torture the victim, who in this case bled to death, suffered at the hands of the killer, who was paid 1,000 dollar to stab her to death.

Rope and trees baby!

 

[BackAgain]

Firing squad?

Old Sparky?

I tend to believe that a set of drugs administered in the proper dosages is best. One to put the condemned person into an immediate deep sleep. One to numb the condemned to any pain even while unconscious. And finally one to stop the heart.

I’m generally (but not universally) opposed to a death penalty. However, as long as we have one, I believe it has to be done without causing undue pain.

 

[1srelluc]

What is nitrogen hypoxia?

Nitrogen hypoxia is a method of suffocating a person by forcing them to breathe pure nitrogen, starving them of oxygen until they die.

A person can breathe pure nitrogen and not immediately realize there is a problem, but their cells and organs are slowly being deprived of the oxygen needed to function and will rapidly start to break down.

Someone deprived of oxygen will pass out in minutes and die soon after when the heart stops beating...

Nitrogen Execution Method Touted as More 'Humane,' but Evidence Is Lacking

A legal battle over nitrogen hypoxia, a new potential method of execution, raises ethical questions

www.scientificamerican.com

I guess the "evidence" will be forthcoming soon.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

What is nitrogen hypoxia?

Nitrogen hypoxia is a method of suffocating a person by forcing them to breathe pure nitrogen, starving them of oxygen until they die.

A person can breathe pure nitrogen and not immediately realize there is a problem, but their cells and organs are slowly being deprived of the oxygen needed to function and will rapidly start to break down.

Someone deprived of oxygen will pass out in minutes and die soon after when the heart stops beating...

Nitrogen Execution Method Touted as More 'Humane,' but Evidence Is Lacking

A legal battle over nitrogen hypoxia, a new potential method of execution, raises ethical questions

www.scientificamerican.com

I guess the "evidence" will be forthcoming soon.

After he's dead they can ask him how it felt.

 

[hjmick]

Anyone else think that guy kind of looks like Mortimer?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Anyone else think that guy kind of looks like Mortimer?

I do now.

 

[okfine]

Alabama has the worst poverty in the developed world. Some say it's a "3rd world State"

Using an untried method will prove it.