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More than quarter of Alabama's death row inmates choose [nitrogen] gas over lethal injections
AP ^ | Aug. 25, 2018 | Kim Chandler

Posted on 08/25/2018 2:50:47 PM PDT by rickmichaels

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1 posted on 08/25/2018 2:50:47 PM PDT by rickmichaels
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Liquid Nitrogen


2 posted on 08/25/2018 2:52:20 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Isn’t that one of the methods recommended by Dr. Kevrokian?


3 posted on 08/25/2018 2:53:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Firing squad!

This awful killing by injection is weird and unnecessary.

4 posted on 08/25/2018 2:54:22 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: butlerweave

Cheap. Abundant. Renewable. Fertilizer. Effective. Kills bad people.

The only downside is that it’s painless.


5 posted on 08/25/2018 2:54:24 PM PDT by lurk
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"...our belief that a three drug lethal injection protocol … is torturous and has tortured our clients,”

And your point is...?

Reflect for a moment, if you will, on *why* your "clients" are where they are.

6 posted on 08/25/2018 2:59:28 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: What would Jack Bauer Do?)
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I think carbon monoxide would be the least painful.


7 posted on 08/25/2018 3:00:10 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
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Why not CO, simple carbon monoxide?

Surely someone in Alabama has got an old Chevy pickup that would do the trick?


8 posted on 08/25/2018 3:01:20 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: What would Jack Bauer Do?)
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People on death row are there because they committed murders. They don’t deserve to have choices on anything, including their method of execution.


9 posted on 08/25/2018 3:02:19 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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The build up of Carbon Monoxide triggers the feeling of suffocation, since air is 70% Nitrogen the body doesn’t recognize it as foreign, so you simply fall asleep.


10 posted on 08/25/2018 3:07:38 PM PDT by Husker24
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Nitrogen hypoxia is a common method of euthanizing stray animals. It is about as painless as possible.

The discomfort often associated with suffocation is caused by carbon dioxide. When one suffocates because of lack of circulation, the victim breathes in his own carbon dioxide. Elevated levels of CO2 in the blood stream trigger a painful and agonizing reaction. With nitrogen hypoxia, the victim passes out from lack of oxygen long before any distress is sensed.

In addition, there are no toxic chemicals or drugs which might injure prison personnel and require stringent security. It’s win-win.


11 posted on 08/25/2018 3:08:14 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Molon Labe)
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To: Redbob
Why not CO, simple carbon monoxide?

CO is toxic. CO2 is inert. CO2 does not kill, it simply displaces O2, which is vital for life. Simply ventilating the gas chamber restores it to a safe condition. Much safer.

12 posted on 08/25/2018 3:10:52 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Molon Labe)
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Libs so worried about harming the killers during execution that they never granted those they killed.


13 posted on 08/25/2018 3:12:51 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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Inhalation of carbon monoxide may cause nausea and headaches, but otherwise causes no distress to its victims, which is why it’s so insidious.


14 posted on 08/25/2018 3:13:01 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Molon Labe)
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Libs so worried about harming the killers during execution that they never granted those they killed.

Liberalism is a great illustrator of the concept of "garbage in, garbage out."

Take a highly organized system, like the system of law and ethics that was built up over thousands of years in English common law, and inject nonsense into it at many levels (affirmative action and other types of "social justice" tinkering), and within a generation or two you have a legal system that protects the guilty and menaces the innocent.

And the bad guys laugh through their fingers at us.

15 posted on 08/25/2018 3:20:43 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: butlerweave
Liquid Nitrogen

LOL! Consicles.

16 posted on 08/25/2018 3:20:56 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I -- a smelly sheep -- was told to "Make a mess." Game on.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
CO2 is inert

They would cough to death in great distress.

17 posted on 08/25/2018 3:22:24 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I -- a smelly sheep -- was told to "Make a mess." Game on.)
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To: rickmichaels

Helium might actually be entertaining.


18 posted on 08/25/2018 3:24:11 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I -- a smelly sheep -- was told to "Make a mess." Game on.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
CO2 is inert.

CO2 is not physiologically inert. However, killing inmates with CO2 might help reverse global warming.

19 posted on 08/25/2018 3:26:54 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I -- a smelly sheep -- was told to "Make a mess." Game on.)
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Nope. Nitrogen is. It’s inert, build up of CO2 is what causes the body to want to take a breath. With no O2 no CO2. You just breathe normally until you pass out and die.

I would chipper would be more or less painless. Not to mention more satisfying for the victims families.


20 posted on 08/25/2018 3:29:21 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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