Posted on 12/15/2006 2:25:59 PM PST by mwilli20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_asphyxiation
Nitrogen asphyxiation
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Nitrogen asphyxiation is a theoretical method of capital punishment advocated by Stuart A. Creque in his article published in National Review, "Killing with kindness - capital punishment by nitrogen asphyxiation". The painful act of suffocation is not caused by lack of oxygen intake but rather because of a buildup of carbon dioxide in the bloodstream which is usually exhaled under normal circumstances.
When a human (or any other mammal) breathes in pure nitrogen, they exhale carbon dioxide without intaking oxygen. Nitrogen is a colorless, odorless and tasteless gas - and which comprises approximately 80 percent of the Earth's atmosphere - as such, the subject would detect no abnormal sensation. This leads to asphyxiation without the painful and traumatic feeling of normal suffocation. Therefore, it is viewed by some as a much more humane way to end a human life in a controlled setting. Furthermore, nitrogen, as the principle component in air, is a commonly occurring element and poses no significant risk upon discharge. Dying by nitrogen asphyxiation is similar to that of carbon monoxide.
Thanks for the story tx,
this surely puts it in perspective...
Attorneys for Morales alleged in a lawsuit that Morales might appear unconscious after being injected with a sedative, but internally he would succumb to excruciating pain, "burning veins and heart failure," once the paralyzing and the death drug were administered.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Well that deserves repeating
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago. Terri Winchell was found beaten and stabbed in a secluded vineyard.
Another damned judge making law.SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge who imposed a moratorium on executions in California ruled Friday that the state's method of lethal injection is unconstitutional because it violates the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
California's "implementation of lethal injection is broken, but it can be fixed," U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel said.
Fogel said the case raised the question of whether a three-drug cocktail administered by the San Quentin State Prison is so painful that it "offends" the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Fogel said he was compelled "to answer that question in the affirmative."
Fogel's decision came on the same day that Florida Gov. Jeb Bush suspended all executions in that state after a botched execution this week.
Lethal injection is the preferred execution method in 37 states. Last month, a federal judge declared unconstitutional Missouri's injection method, which is similar to California's.
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld executions _ by hanging, firing squad, electric chair and gas chamber _ despite the pain they might cause, but has left unsettled the issue of whether the pain is unconstitutionally excessive.
California has been under a capital punishment moratorium since February, when Fogel called off the execution of rapist and murderer Michael Morales amid concerns that condemned inmates might suffer excruciating deaths.
Fogel found substantial evidence that the last six men executed at San Quentin might have been conscious because they were still breathing when lethal drugs were administered.
He ordered anesthesiologists to be on hand, or demanded that a licensed medical professional inject a large, fatal dose of a sedative instead of the additional paralyzing agent and heart-stopping drugs that are normally used. But no medical professional was willing to participate.
Attorneys for Morales alleged in a lawsuit that Morales might appear unconscious after being injected with a sedative, but internally he would suffer excruciating pain, "burning veins and heart failure," once the paralyzing and the death drug were administered.
Morales, 47, of Stockton, raped and brutally beat a 17-year-old Lodi girl 25 years ago.
California's death row is the nation's largest, with more than 650 inmates.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n17_v47/ai_17374449
Killing with kindness - capital punishment by nitrogen asphyxiation
National Review, Sept 11, 1995 by Stuart A. Creque
And it should be fun? ;)
I guess 5-7 seconds can be an eternity (so to speak) for the head, but do we know if there is pain and do we really care?
Not trying to be augmentative, just a personal thought.
To me this would be the most humane way to execute someone … in most cases, the amount of pain that the condemned suffered would be far less then the pain and fear that they caused to the victim (and maybe of shorter duration).
If the death row delays would go away, the poor guillotine would not suffer downtime for many years to come. But, alas …
no mess if its out on the exercise grass and its raining. make other death rowers pick up the pieces of bone.
Nothing that can't get fixed with a bullet or better yet, an ecologically sound and re-usable rope.
Lethal injection is far more humane, with anesthesia.
Actually a gun with a bullet to the brain would be far less cruel and unusual then what happened in this last lethal injection case.
Read post #52 for the whole story, it will make you cry. At least your source touched on it, most MSM stories conveniently don't include the reason these scum bags are on death row to begin with. There are lots of these anti-death penalty groups speaking all over the media for these bastards, but almost no one is speaking for the real victims. This a-hole's family is telling the press what a great guy he is now and that he has found God and they even have the tenacity to compare his new faith in God to the victim's at the time of her death. It's enough to make you want to throw up.
The French really should be proud of the guillotine! You failed to mention the entertainment value it afords. The drama and the terror of it all! Sure and swift. It would make great television fare if we ever got to that point. The best part is, that with all that, it probably is pretty much painless.
"He ordered anesthesiologists to be on hand, or demanded that a licensed medical professional inject a large, fatal dose of a sedative instead of the additional paralyzing agent and heart-stopping drugs that are normally used. But no medical professional was willing to participate."
Why is a med-pro needed?
Use the same person who does it now, just drop the additional paralyzing agent and heart-stopping drugs.
That field is about a 15 minute drive from where I live.
let the death row inmates clean it up.
Judges. People who couldn't get elected otherwise.
The wall has been gone for decades. The building jutting out in the foreground of the picture was the prison and was demolished in the 1870s, I think.
Florida just announced opposition to death penalty too- Guess which states murdering maggots are going to flock to? http://sacredscoop.com
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