The Dawn of a New Form of Capital Punishment (Nitrogen)

Time Magazine ^ | April 2015 | Josh Sanborn

[driftdiver]

I’ve read and been told that a single breath of high concentration CO2 causes a person to lose consciousness immediately.

[Elsie]

1. A small room
2. A gun with two bullets
3. It's a Small, Small World pumped thru a hidden speaker
4. These pictures covering the walls

[HartleyMBaldwin]

And their last words are hilarious.

[Ken H]

Helium is better. The pass out instantly, and the helium passes through the skin as well as through the lungs. Death is almost instantaneous.

And you end on a high note.

[Balding_Eagle]

Of course they end up dead, but there is a long history of songs and stories written about those who were deemed worthy of the firing squad. There is a certain glory attached to being tied to a post, the squad lining up, the order given, the shots fired.

It’s as though the criminal died a heroic death, and none of us want that.

Not so much for those who were doomed to be hung from a rope.

[Balding_Eagle]

Of course they end up dead, but there is a long history of songs and stories written about those who were deemed worthy of the firing squad. There is a certain glory attached to being tied to a post, the squad lining up, the order given, the shots fired.

It’s as though the criminal died a heroic death, and none of us want that.

Not so much for those who were doomed to be hung from a rope.

[Balding_Eagle]

Opps, didn’t mean to double post.

[zeugma]

Nitrogen asphyxiation is painless and effective.

And cheap.

[SunkenCiv]

Firing squad, hanging, guillotin, thrown off the Tarpeian Rock -- all of those work. That 60 Minutes smear job should result in everyone involved in the report doing prison time for inciting riots and mass hysteria.