Kenneth Smith is set to be executed with NITROGEN by Alabama prison after killing preacher's wife in 1988

Daily Mail ^ | 8/26/23 | Lewis Pennock

[KevinB]

... forcing him to breathe only nitrogen, depriving them of oxygen and causing them to die

Is that what passes for writing these days? Shaking my head.

[NorthMountain]

Vlad Tepes knew how to execute people ...

[glennaro]

Thank you for these details,LIM. It’s a precious thing to learn something new each day. Cheers!

[Vermont Lt]

If they remove all the O2 I imagine it would do the trick.

[Vermont Lt]

I believe the theory is that he will go to sleep due to deprivation.

I guess we will find out.

[AZJeep]

But Helium is quite expensive.
Nitrogen is cheap and nonpolluting.

[Fido969]

They could use hydrogen, while giving him his last cigarette.

“Oh, the humanity”

[HartleyMBaldwin]

It’s worth it.

[TheDon]

I like this type of execution. I would seal the death row chambers and not tell the condemned which night would be their last.

[Theophilus]

Actually what gives your body the impulse to breathe is the carbon dioxide levels in your blood. Nitrogen asphyxiation allows you to exhale, unlike strangulation, so you essentially fall asleep to death.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks for the good explanations.

[Telepathic Intruder]

CO is even worse, of course.

[skepsel]

Damn, at first I thought, cool, that they meant LIQUID nitrogen!

I saw Penn & Teller do a morning show gag once.

Penn dipped a rose in the stuff and shattered it on the counter, then dipped Teller’s hand and shattered IT, while Teller mimed screaming.

Then Teller smiled and his hand emerged from his sleeve as the talking head lady tried to regain her composure.

[Theophilus]

FReegards!

[BozoTexino]

LOL!

[Jim W N]

For millennia, they’ve been trying to find the “right way” to execute a convict.

But there is no right way to do the wrong thing.