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2022-09-13 -Short Attention Span Theater-
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'
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Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-13 01:01|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#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||   2022-09-13 05:50|| Front Page Top

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

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

#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||   2022-09-13 06:27|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2022-09-13 06:57|| Front Page Top

#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||   2022-09-13 07:06|| Front Page Top

#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||   2022-09-13 07:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes!
Posted by DooDahMan 2022-09-13 07:16||   2022-09-13 07:16|| Front Page Top

#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||   2022-09-13 07:17|| Front Page Top

#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||   2022-09-13 08:15|| Front Page Top

#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||   2022-09-13 08:26|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2022-09-13 09:32|| Front Page Top

#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||   2022-09-13 09:35|| Front Page Top

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

#17 Happens to me all the time.

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

#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||   2022-09-13 10:19|| Front Page Top

#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||   2022-09-13 10:23|| Front Page Top

#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||   2022-09-13 10:42|| Front Page Top

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

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-09-13 12:14||   2022-09-13 12:14|| Front Page Top

#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||   2022-09-13 13:39|| Front Page Top

#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||   2022-09-13 14:10|| Front Page Top

#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||   2022-09-13 15:15|| Front Page Top

#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||   2022-09-13 15:33|| Front Page Top

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

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

#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||   2022-09-13 21:12|| Front Page Top

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