[MeshugeMikey]

while this is not relevant to the topic...I must state that I read the headline as Obama...>wanting< to try asphyxiating inmates with nitrogen...

which is cheaper, asphyxiation or bullets?

[thorvaldr]

My problem with Utah using firing squads is that there is a 100% chance Bloomberg would count it as “gun violence”.

[Pontiac]

which is cheaper, asphyxiation or bullets?

The gas is cheap.

Because it is viewed as a quick and probably painless way to die, death by hypoxia has become popular among people seeking to commit suicide. The procedure typically involves what is called an exit bag—a plastic tent wrapped around the head that is filled with an inert gas like nitrogen or helium. (The method is similar to what has been discussed in Oklahoma.)

I can’t imagine anything much cheaper than the method described above. And the bag would be reusable.

But knowing the love of politicians to spend money you can bet that this simple cheap process would become unnecessarily complicated with a chamber that would contain the entire body of the condemned prisoner and an automated delivery system for the gas. similar to what the gas chamber was in the 1940s.

Simple and cheap just doesn’t do it for the political class.

[Boogieman]

I think Obama only wants to asphyxiate our elderly, to make his health care plan economically viable.

(Too bad I'm at work, or I would photoshop O's face on this)