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Alabama cleared to become first state to execute inmate with nitrogen gas: court
Fox News ^ | 11/02/23 | Pilar Arias

Posted on 11/02/2023 4:33:26 PM PDT by Libloather

Alabama's Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the state to execute an inmate using nitrogen gas.

The state's attorney general’s request for an execution warrant for Kenneth Eugene Smith was granted in a 6-2 decision by an all-Republican court.

Last year, the Alabama Department of Corrections called off the execution of Smith when the people responsible for connecting two intravenous lines to him for lethal injection could not do so.

While the ruling moves the state closer to becoming the first to attempt execution with nitrogen gas, there is likely to be additional legal dispute on the matter. Alabama joins Oklahoma and Mississippi with authorization to use nitrogen hypoxia as a form of execution, although no state has yet attempted to use it.

Smith was one of two men convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett in Alabama's Colbert County.

"Elizabeth Sennett's family has waited an unconscionable 35 years to see justice served. Today, the Alabama Supreme Court cleared the way for Kenneth Eugene Smith to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall wrote. "Though the wait has been far too long, I am grateful that our capital litigators have nearly gotten this case to the finish line."

Smith's legal team had urged the court to reject the execution request. They also previously accused the state of trying to move Smith to "the front of the line" for a nitrogen execution in order to moot Smith’s lawsuit challenging lethal injection procedures.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: 1988; alabama; elizabethsennett; execute; execution; gas; kennetheugenesmith; lethalinjection; murder; murderer; nitrogen; nitrogenhypoxia; useful
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To: Libloather

Stand by for the 15 year battle in the Federal courts.


21 posted on 11/02/2023 4:54:33 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: Banana Republic)
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To: Fungi

I just got Winchester 40gr .22LR for 7.8 cents/round.


22 posted on 11/02/2023 4:54:49 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Libloather
Smith's legal team had urged the court to reject the execution request.

They [His legal team] probably have a wife they want him to murder. Which he is good at. He could use a little more practice at not getting caught.

23 posted on 11/02/2023 4:57:43 PM PDT by sport
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To: Fungi

Replace the oxygen with helium with his face uncovered. Leave him alone in the chamber screaming for mercy in a high pitched voice. Make it a pay per view. Fun for the whole family!!


24 posted on 11/02/2023 5:01:43 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (America will need de-liberalization just as Germany had de-nazification.)
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To: Fungi

Replace the oxygen with helium with his face uncovered. Leave him alone in the chamber screaming for mercy in a high pitched voice. Make it a pay per view. Fun for the whole family!!


25 posted on 11/02/2023 5:01:43 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (America will need de-liberalization just as Germany had de-nazification.)
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To: Libloather

Should be a peaceful way to go.

A firing squad makes good target practice though.

And forget that “only one gun with a real bullet so they don’t know who did it” crap.


26 posted on 11/02/2023 5:05:09 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Libloather

Few feet of plastic wrap, no gas needed


27 posted on 11/02/2023 5:13:51 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Gay State Conservative

It’s already been 35 years…..astonishing .


28 posted on 11/02/2023 5:21:23 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

I know they use Carbon Monoxide in packaged meat.
What’s the advantage of N over CO in executions?


29 posted on 11/02/2023 5:27:03 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Nitrogen doesn’t expand and contract like air does with changes in temperature which means the tire pressure doesn’t change with the temperature


30 posted on 11/02/2023 5:29:52 PM PDT by diverteach (Pureblood proud and unashamed !)
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To: Fungi

It’s not like there’s any shortage of that. Give him a hotshot.


31 posted on 11/02/2023 5:36:13 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Libloather

Actually it will be much more tolerable than any other way, especially if they do any kind of sedation first.


32 posted on 11/02/2023 5:39:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

For most people it makes zero difference. The air has about 80% nitrogen in it by default.


33 posted on 11/02/2023 5:40:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

It’s used on jet liner tires.


34 posted on 11/02/2023 5:55:30 PM PDT by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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To: diverteach

—” which means the tire pressure doesn’t change with the temperature”

Kind of sort of, but not exactly.

If you are using clean DRY air like used for SCUBA, nitrogen expands almost exactly the same as air for the temperature tires might be operating at ~ -30F to 240F.

No gearhead I know has a tire gauge accurate enough to see a difference.

NB: Most tire gauges are junk.


35 posted on 11/02/2023 6:04:01 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Libloather
They should use Nitrous Oxide instead of straight Nitrogen. It would make for quite an entertaining evening.


36 posted on 11/02/2023 6:21:23 PM PDT by CapnJack ( )
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To: Fungi
That can be done with any gas. Just exclude oxygen and any gas will work.

Biologically yes. BUT the body does sense concentrations of other gasses and will react. The body senses increases in Co2 and will create a stress reaction. Probably not a good choice for execution (opinions of FR aside).

The body does not sense the absence of O2 and will not react to the resulting suffocation. Inspectors of cargo ships have died almost instantly inspecting the hold of the ship carrying scrap steel. The rusting steel removed all the oxygen. Inspectors never knew what hit them.

37 posted on 11/02/2023 6:22:30 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: Libloather
Lethal injection was always a bad idea. Glad to see it go away.

Gas is much better.

38 posted on 11/02/2023 6:23:13 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

“Is Nitrogen really good for tires?”

Tires are designed to use regular air.


39 posted on 11/02/2023 6:24:01 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: fruser1

I thought it was only one gun with a blank.


40 posted on 11/02/2023 6:25:02 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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