Posted on 08/25/2018 2:50:47 PM PDT by rickmichaels
MONTGOMERY, Ala. Some say inhaling nitrogen gas would be like dying on a plane that depressurizes in flight, swiftly killing all aboard. Now more than a quarter of Alabamas death row inmates have signed statements saying they would prefer that gas over lethal injection or the electric chair when facing execution.
No inmate in the U.S. has been put to death with nitrogen gas before, and critics suspect at least some inmates are simply hoping to delay a date with the death chamber through the inevitable legal challenges ahead.
State corrections officials say 51 of Alabamas 180 inmates have chosen nitrogen hypoxia, allowed a choice after Alabama lawmakers voted this year to authorize that alternative execution method. With difficulties obtaining execution drugs and litigation arising over claims of botched and horribly painful chemical injections this decade, Alabama is not alone as it joins Oklahoma and Mississippi in exploring that as a potential alternative.
John Palombi, an attorney with the Federal Defenders Program, said his group advised inmates to request the uncertainties of nitrogen gas over what he called the known torture of Alabamas three-drug cocktail. They had a June 30 deadline to make a choice.
Our decision to have our clients opt into use of nitrogen hypoxia was based on our belief that a three drug lethal injection protocol
is torturous and has tortured our clients, Palombi wrote in an email, citing last years execution of Torrey McNabb and Ronald Smith Jr.s the year before.
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My personal preference is for the French method. It’s not for the squeamish but it’s pretty damned fast and painless... or close enough.
With hold all food and water until death. Mainstream media insisted it was such a humane way for Terry Schiavo to die.
Carbon Monoxide is not, from what I have read, an easy death. Nitrogen, OTOH, is a definitely inert gas that is naturally in the air we breathe, thus the body does not react to the suffocation the same was as other gases.
Nearly did, me and my whole family ... years back in a rental we had, furnace was going bad, thank God we figured it out in time.
I have promoted nitrogen or one of the Noble gases to quickly and cleanly exterminate death row inmates.
lol, that was funny.
Libs actually want execution to be horrible and painful so they can use that to turn people against it.
If we have painless, quick and clean executions, that takes a tool out of their tool box.
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I heard second hand of a similar situation.
The connectors for air and nitrogen were identical; a situation begging for an incident.
The tech plugged his breathing mask into the nitrogen by mistake. He was twice dragged out of the room unconscious before the mistake was identified. No discomfort or even a suspicion of trouble was reported by the victim.
Go into a space with a bulk CO2 fire suppression system and trip it. Experience convulsions, arrhythmia, tachycardia, heart failure, massive stroke, coma or all together.
Cyanogen induced respiratory paralysis-central nervous system-can’t draw a breath.
In capital punishment, the penalty is death, not death by torture, so even if painless it doesn’t negate the punishment in any way.
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