[Pontiac]

Items on that checklist include determining that the state has enough lethal drugs for the execution, evaluating the inmate’s mental health and checking his veins for the insertion of IVs.

I always have to wonder who got a kick back buying these overly complicated expensive execution systems. The automated injection systems and drugs that make lawsuits easy for the civil rights lawyers.

A simple gas chamber from the 1930s modified to use a cheap industrial gas like nitrogen would be very simple to use and painless.

All that is need to put a prisoner to death is to replace the air in the chamber with nitrogen and the prisoner would be in respiratory arrest in less than a minute and brain dead in less than 10.

Because the pain associated with asphyxiation is caused by excess carbon-dioxide in the blood the asphyxiation caused by the lack of oxygen in the air does not cause pain.

Prisoner executed in this way will not experience pain.

[Ouderkirk]

I am of the opinion that executions need not be painless.

What the Constitution requires is that the execution be performed in a manner that does not cause pain for the sake of causing pain.

[Keyhopper]

Just like going to the dentist using NO2. Just adjust the nitrogen slowly, he’ll get a nice buzz before checking out