While I am entirely against capital punishment at least if they use this method it will be much more humane.
There is no such thing as humane capital punishment.
“Much more humane,” says who?
The article says “proponents of the new method have theorized it would be painless,” but I’m not inclined to take their word for it.
It is painless. You can try it out yourself. Your body only detects excess CO2 not lack of oxygen. You will go lightheaded before passing out and eventually dying of oxygen starvation
Oh, and I can try it out myself? Thanks, mate. :)
Never heard of death by nitrogen until his morning, but this conversation got me curious enough to read this article, which doesn’t convince me it’s painless.
When Alabama and two other states authorized nitrogen hypoxia, supporters said it was a more humane method of execution. Others, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have said there isn’t yet sufficient evidence to back up that claim.
Because no person has ever been executed by inhaling pure nitrogen — there is seemingly no way to humanely test its use — exactly how the state will carry out a nitrogen hypoxia execution is unclear. A deputy state attorney general said the state has developed a protocol for it, but added that it has not been finalized…
It’s only a quibble, though, for me. I’m opposed to the death penalty, even if they devise a method that causes fatal orgasm.
Oh, this is absolutely nothing new. Without getting into details… this method of administering death has been advocated for by doctors and activists. Done correctly, the victim of this capital punishment may not feel a thing at all. Done poorly, there may be raised heart rate, hyper-ventilation, and involuntary convulsions.
…this method of administering death has been advocated for by doctors
You cracked me up with that. :) Sounds like a doctor my wife & I had in Kansas City…
Goddamn finally, I’ve always wondered why nitrogen was never used for these kinds of things before. Cheap, painless, and effective.
Not exactly advocating for the death penalty, but if it must exist in this world I’d hope it’d use an effective and painless method
Prisons must be abolished. Free em all!
This is easily the most dangerous method possible for everyone involved. Strangely enough our body only reacts to buildups of CO2, it does not react to a lack of oxygen.
So while in theory it would be painless as an execution method, if anything leaks into the viewing area for the execution there is no visible signs anyone is in danger as oxygen is being displaced thus potentially killing everyone involved.
There’s a whole field of industry for gas detection, whether it be for the presence of toxic or explosive gas, or the absence of healthy breathing air. It’s an easily mitigated problem. If the detector on the wall goes below 20% o2, an alarm sounds, circulation fans turn on, and everyone leaves the room.
But the system overall is not fail safe. Through sheer bad luck, the warning system could fail and there could be a leak into the viewing chamber.
This is quite literally what a Deadman switch is for. The man closest to the wall holds the switch that sucks out the oxygen and replaces it with nitrogen and when that man lets up it kicks on high power fans in the viewing area unless you hold another switch almost out of reach that you must hold up.
It’s well established how to administer this method of death, I don’t see this same safety concern as you do.
