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Alabama plans to carry out first nitrogen gas execution. How will it work and what are the risks?

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Alabama plans to carry out first nitrogen gas execution. How will it work and what are the risks?

Alabama is preparing to attempt the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday by nitrogen hypoxia.
apnews.com

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas.

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday by nitrogen hypoxia. If carried out, it would the first new method of execution since lethal injection was introduced in 1982.

The state maintains that nitrogen gas will cause unconsciousness quickly but critics have likened the never-used method of execution to human experimentation.

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They bungled trying to off this guy once so they are going to experiment on him a second time. Cruel & unusual punishment.
 
I don't know but it seems like they should only get one kick at the cat. Blow it and now you have to feed him for the rest of his life.
 
- put the convicted criminal to sleep (medically induced coma)

One then could execute by hanging, firing squad, etc. Problem solved.

My comment is partly sarcastic. At times we seem more concerned about how the criminal dies and how the people killed must have felt as they died.
 
Just bring back Ole Sparky. Remember the wet sponge.
 
Grand Mal said:
I don't know but it seems like they should only get one kick at the cat. Blow it and now you have to feed him for the rest of his life.
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I agree but their Supremes didn't.
 
Just use the phenytoin/pentobarbital used in animals. Cheap, fast, effective. High dose and over. No, we gotta make things difficult.
Then there is the concern of 'Treating them like animals!' as considered on the first page here..

No, we treat them worse. My last dog didn't gasp for 20 minutes.(RIP). Matter of seconds really.
 
Still barbaric.
Corporations can kill citizens but the officers of the Corp. go about their foul deeds..
Louisiana >> ..A Corporation Chemical plant>>
In the tract of land where Mary Hampton lives, the risk of cancer from air toxicity is 50 times the national average. The highest of anywhere in the US. In fact, five census tracts within the St John the Baptist parish, the municipality to which Reserve belongs, are in the top 10 cancer risk zones in America.

And yet, those chemicals were met with next to no action. "All we hear are lies, day in and day out

“We felt like nobody cared. The attitude was ‘it is what it is so you all just live with it,’” says Hampton. “What are we supposed to do, stay here, be sick and die?”

Residents across the parish routinely articulate similar feelings of abandonment; from their elected representatives, from industry, and, frequently, from the
national media.

THIS crap is why a lot of people shun the death penalty. You got big money? Kill people with your chemicals?..No problem.
 
We rick our national soul every time an execution takes place
 
It.is.so. Simple.

….and they try to complicate it?
 
If you cant whack a guy in one shot as the government, then it should be over.
 
I only have one problem, taking more than one shot at ending someone. If the state cant do it in one shot, they should not get a second chance.
 
PirateMk1 said:
If you cant whack a guy in one shot as the government, then it should be over.
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It could be done pretty easy, with pretty much a guaranteed 100% success rate, but having compassion for murderers gets in the way.
Word is this used to work pretty well.
 
Isn't that the description of the stabbing death of the woman he was paid to execute?
 
A .22 slug to the back of the head is fast, painless, economical, and 100% effective.

Not that I trust the government to kill people, much less the government of Alabama.
 
The only risks are that it doesnt work. Youll need an airtight chamber, and getting rid of all the O2 will not be easy. Youre essentially suffocating an insect in a jar.

Bring back firing squads.
 
Sorry this method will not get around the liberal left roadblocks. As we write I have it on good authority that the EPA has been notified and in the morning they will order the State to quit polluting the air with nitrogen, "a serious and illegal pollutant".

Meantime the murder gets his 3 meals a day served to him, time for recreation, a TV in his cell, and some couch time explaining to prison psychiatrist why he murders kids for the pure joy of it.
 
poppopfox said:
Isn't that the description of the stabbing death of the woman he was paid to execute?
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The description I read was from the responding officer. He said that she had been stabbed, and beaten to death in her home with a fireplace implement, and staged to look like a home invasion and burglary. He said she fought it hard, but the sight was horrific. This was way back in 1988.

The woman's two son were also horrified at the sight, and almost in disbelief. In the meantime the preacher husband who had hired the two killers put on histrionic act of grief and a week later when he thought he was about to be arrested he admitted to his family that he hired the killers for a thousand dollars each and then the father went out to his car and shot himself;

The killer had 38 years of life since that he didn't deserve. So I don't feel especially sorry for him. He should have been put down years ago.
 
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