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2024-01-25 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Alabama can execute prisoner using nitrogen gas rules federal court - after inmate's appeal that it was untested and could lead to a cruel death was rejected: Final decision on method of execution rests with SCOTUS

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Just take one of those plastic sheets that covers your dry cleaning and pull it over his head. Read the warning on the sheet.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-25 06:54|| 2024-01-25 06:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Appeal that is was untested....
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But, but, but Kenneth Eugene 'is' the test.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-25 06:57|| 2024-01-25 06:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Put him with Epstein's cellmate.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-25 07:16|| 2024-01-25 07:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Holding me breath waiting for first media reference to "deadly nitrogen gas."

Posted by Gomez McCoy8771 2024-01-25 07:20|| 2024-01-25 07:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Not untested. People have died of nitrogen asphyxia in industrial settings.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-25 07:58|| 2024-01-25 07:58|| Front Page Top

#6 one large bullet to the head. messy but quick.

Posted by irish rage boy 2024-01-25 09:07|| www.weemfg.com 2024-01-25 09:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Actually nitrogen gas is said to be the preferred method of suicide. For a reason.

Of course, it's deadly. Just like water is. Or oxygen.

Posted by European Conservative 2024-01-25 09:11|| 2024-01-25 09:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Yeah, ask any industrial worker how well it is tested.

Very quick and painless. You just drop unconscious and suffocate.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-01-25 10:10|| 2024-01-25 10:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Suffocation is painless as long as carbondioxide can escape. Elevated CO2 intake causes the suffering. This doesn't happen with this method. The body doesn't recognize nitrogen replacing oxygen.

Posted by European Conservative 2024-01-25 10:21|| 2024-01-25 10:21|| Front Page Top

#10 This is too true. Apple storage facilities.

Posted by Spats B. Hayes8168 2024-01-25 17:04|| 2024-01-25 17:04|| Front Page Top

#11 The reason they are so desperate to stop it is it'll give states an easy, painless way to conduct executions that is hard to object to. They are afraid that once everyone see's how effective this is, the death penalty will come back with a vengeance.

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-01-25 18:30|| 2024-01-25 18:30|| Front Page Top

#12 ZOMG! He was denied a final dinner, prolly so his atty's couldn't file that bitchy complaint. Die MF

"Smith, officials said, would receive his last meal at 10am and would not be allowed to consume liquids after 4pm, approximately two hours before the execution. Alabama inmates are provided three meals a day.

The prisoner’s final meal consisted of steak, hash browns and eggs, officials said late Thursday.

The decision was made to reduce the likelihood that Smith could start vomiting during the attempt and suffer a “substantial risk of harm”, according to a federal court ruling issued Wednesday.

After Smith survived an initial execution attempt in 2022 via lethal injection, he elected to be put to death by nitrogen hypoxia, a process that slowly deprives prisoners of oxygen. However, he’s previously noted several concerns with the untested method, including the likelihood that he could choke on his own vomit.

Due to the failed attempt, Smith suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. The prisoner said he has spent the weeks leading up to the execution suffering from retching and nausea.

As a result, officials decided that Smith’s last meal would be breakfast, served eight hours before he is scheduled to be put to death.

The process of serving a prisoner their final meal in Alabama is normally organised by William C Holman Correctional Facility Warden Terry Raybon. That’s where most death row inmates spend their final days before officials administer the death penalty."

Posted by Frank G 2024-01-25 20:42|| 2024-01-25 20:42|| Front Page Top

#13 Gone.
Done.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-25 23:55|| 2024-01-25 23:55|| Front Page Top

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