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Alabama prepares to execute death row prisoner by nitrogen hypoxia later this month but the technique has never been tried before with critics calling it 'human experimentation'
2022-09-13
  • Nitrogen hypoxia is supposed to cause death by replacing oxygen with nitrogen, and has been authorized by Alabama and two other states for executions

  • The technique has never been used with lethal injection -- the preferred method

  • In a nitrogen hypoxia execution, the prisoner would breathe pure nitrogen, depriving his or her body of oxygen causing asphyxiation

  • Its proponents argue it is a more humane method of execution, but it cannot ethically be tested

  • Alan Eugene Miller is set to be executed later this month using the technique but says the state lost the paperwork selecting the alternate execution method

  • He is designated to die by lethal injection although a lawsuit has been launched
Posted by:Skidmark

#27  #24. Why do you insist on tormenting the janitor. Its bad enough that us in similar professions have to deal the the animals among the general public. Now you want us to have to clean up after a messy execution? No thanks. Just hang the bastards perps over a nuclear waste pit then cut the rope.
Posted by: Jak the Ripper   2022-09-13 21:12  

#26  Nitrogen works great. You just drift off quickly, painless.

Argon is fine, too.
Posted by: KBK   2022-09-13 16:10  

#25  But the guillotine was very good at reducing future crimes by the onlookers. Something sadly lacking in 'humane' methods.
Hanging may be better depending on how long you can make the dance...
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-09-13 15:33  

#24  Honestly, we should have something dual purpose. A log splitter or Hammer press should be fine to carry out executions. Might be messy but hey, that's what janitors are for:p
Posted by: Silentbrick   2022-09-13 15:15  

#23  Well, expect the FDA and DoJ to require that only USP grade nitrogen be used. Not that welding grade stuff.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-09-13 14:10  

#22  I have favored Nitrogen because it is readily available from normal commercial suppliers. There really isn't any 'boutique supplier' that can be harassed by the wokesters when you are just buying Nitrogen gas by the pressurized cylinder.
Posted by: magpie   2022-09-13 13:39  

#21  Guillotin argued that decapitation by a lightning-quick machine would be more humane and egalitarian...

Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-09-13 12:14  

#20  I once went to a talk by a Hemlock Society 'assistant'. Nitrogen hypoxia is exactly what they suggested for a sure and painless suicide. (No, I have no intent in that direction.)
Posted by: Nero   2022-09-13 10:42  

#19  As its been noted, the result is tried and true. It doesn't need to be tested, there is plenty of documentation.

Haz Mat Emergency Response Guide
Nitrogen
ID 1066
Response Guide 120


One of my favorite lines, concerning Park Service garbage can design,

“There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-09-13 10:23  

#18  I seem to recall years ago a last minute lawsuit to prevent execution by lethal injection. Argument was that the injection was not FDA approved. These people have no credibility. They are against the death penalty and willing to say and do whatever to prevent it. Just dishonest.
Posted by: Angstrom   2022-09-13 10:19  

#17  Happens to me all the time.

Meetings. Meetings are high in nitrogen.
Posted by: SteveS   2022-09-13 10:05  

#16  Simply call it an extreme late term abortion.
Posted by: Warthog   2022-09-13 09:47  

#15  It's apocryphally attributed to Einstein: "The Universe may be finite, but stupidity is infinite nonetheless..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-09-13 09:35  

#14  Murcek there is a race between engineers and the universe. The engineers make something more fool proof and the universe makes better fools.

So far the universe is winning.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-09-13 09:32  

#13  Nothing is so fool proof that an ingenious fool cannot botch it.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-09-13 08:28  

#12  It has been tried. Multiple times. See industrial accidents. You don't even know that there is Nitrogen there until after you pass out.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-09-13 08:26  

#11  Yes, totally. Self-righteous, lilly livered, wishy washy, holier than thou, ass faggots trying to prove they, unlike us are evolved beyond revengeance. There's so many like them in the courts, in bureaucracy, in legislatures. They live in a disconnect from real life and serve written words of dead fools rather than the living around them. They're actually obstructionists to real progress.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-09-13 08:15  

#10  Just as funerals are for the benefit of the mourners, not the deceased, executions have evolved from punishment for the guilty to a forum for the punishers to congratulate themselves that they are "humane."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-09-13 07:17  

#9  Yes!
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-09-13 07:16  

#8  What's wrong with a shot to the head? Why all this fuss about humane ways to kill a man. Again, the typical compulsion to standardization and the search for the perfect process. Just use whatever you have at hand to off them. Set a damn date, and the officials of the respective State just have to get it done before the date is up. Give him a fine meal, have him pet a dog, talk to a priest whatever. And hit him with a lead pipe until he's finished for fcuk's sake. That's if you don't have the latest peaceful death pill or feathery comfort .45 FMJ that just 'slides you into hell'. He should just be dead by midnight.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-09-13 07:10  

#7  There's a warning on those plastic wraps for the clothes you pick up at the cleaners. Hint.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-09-13 07:06  

#6  I'm good with a shovel to the head after they dig their own grave
Posted by: Frank G   2022-09-13 06:57  

#5  Fentanyl seems to be a well tested painless killer.
Posted by: Airandee   2022-09-13 06:51  

#4  The irony in the logic of the Anti-Death Penalty crowd.
They fight tooth and nail and string out appeals to protect a person that put someone to Death.

The Execution process should be simple, just offer 3 styles of Quick Execution.

Firing squad, Hanging, Lethal Injection.

Posted by: NN2N1   2022-09-13 06:27  

#3  Lots of surplus Pfizer-BioNTech booster out there yet as well.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-09-13 06:00  

#2  Happens to me all the time.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-09-13 05:56  

#1  I’ve talked about nitrogen before. It’s a big safety issue in industrial settings. You just go to sleep. You may not even realize you are getting drowsy.
Posted by: Lowspark   2022-09-13 05:50  

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