Alabama will execute a convict using nitrogen

Alone in a bare cell with minimum nutrition and no chance of ever leaving is also the death penalty and I can imagine that may also be a type of torture. That's how my cousin's life ended. But it will settle it for the victim's loved ones so they are not spending their lives waiting for the death to be administered and interrupted over and over with legal wrangling.
 
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,
/—-/ Still, a kinder death than their victims experienced.
 
/—-/ Still, a kinder death than their victims experienced.

Sometimes. People get murdered in different ways.

But ideally I'd say the goal should be to dispatch the criminal the same way as he whacked his victim.

If shoot someone, someone else should shoot you. If you got loaded and ran someone over with your car, someone else should get drunk and run you over.
 
Sometimes. People get murdered in different ways.

But ideally I'd say the goal should be to dispatch the criminal the same way as he whacked his victim.

If shoot someone, someone else should shoot you. If you got loaded and ran someone over with your car, someone else should get drunk and run you over.
/----/ Family members of the victim would be happy to run over the drunk driver cold stone sober. if you ask me,
 
I think a vacuum chamber would hurt.
Hypoxia is painless.
Air crews do hypoxia training is in an altitude chamber. (vacuum chamber)
They pump the air out and allow the trainee to experience hypoxia so that they will know the symptoms.
At about 30,000 feet you just pass out when you take your oxygen mask off.

 
Why nitrogen? if there are so many other proven ways to proceed with the death sentence?
 
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.

Makes sense. 78% of our air is inert N2. It will feel just like breathing air but without the oxygen, he will lose consciousness, pass out and eventually die.
 

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