Posted on 08/26/2023 2:39:43 PM PDT by Libloather
A murderer who killed a preacher's wife in 1988 is set to become the first death row inmate in America to be executed with nitrogen.
Alabama officials want to put Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, to death by nitrogen hypoxia - forcing him to breathe only nitrogen, depriving them of oxygen and causing them to die.
Several states have authorized the method, which is said to be painless, but it has still never been used.
Critics have said authorities would be 'experimenting with a never before used method - but even Smith has said he would prefer death by nitrogen to a lethal injection.
The Alabama attorney general's office on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for Smith. The court filing indicated Alabama plans to put him to death by nitrogen hypoxia.
Nitrogen makes up 78% of the air inhaled by humans and is harmless when inhaled with oxygen. Proponents of the new method have theorized it would be painless.
Alabama authorized the method in 2018 amid a shortage of drugs used to carry out lethal injections, but the state has not attempted to use it until now to carry out a death sentence.
Oklahoma and Mississippi have also authorized nitrogen hypoxia, but have not used it.
The disclosure that Alabama is ready to use nitrogen hypoxia is expected to set off a new round of legal battles over the constitutionality of the method.
Smith was one of two men paid $1,000 each to murder Elizabeth Sennett on behalf of her preacher husband, Charles Sennett Sr., who was in debt and wanted to collect life insurance money.
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CO2 in concentrations above around 1.5% becomes poisonous. Around 4% will kill you in a few minutes.
Bring back hanging. It is a low cost method of execution that is well tried and effective.
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Actually the guillotine is more humane and effective. Quicker and less painful too!
“They didn’t mention the 0% oxygen content.”
Oh. Didn’t realize that they reduced the Oxygen. Agree, then.
Just starve him to death, I heard it’s “euphoric”.
35 years later. It’s ridiculous it takes that long.
Does not work like that.
You body’s regulatory system registers and increase in Co2 in the blood stream, not a decrease in O2. Several individuals have been exposed to high nitrogen low oxygen environments and simply passed out. When those who were lucky enough to be revived report on their experience, they did not report any form of panic or anxiety. The just went to sleep.
A bit? No, but carbon dioxide becomes toxic at 4%.
I dealt with an OD from Nitrous oxide. He never knew it was coming and died quietly.
That is why the space station needs CO2 scrubbers.
Carbon dioxide poisoning is quite painful. Respiratory distress is caused by the inability to remove CO2 from the blood. Respiration is controlled by sensing CO2 levels. There was a village in Africa that was wiped out about 10 years ago when a volcano caused a local build up of CO2. An excruciating way to die. Carbon Monoxide is deadly, but much slower. It bonds to hemoglobin preventing the absorption of oxygen, but it is a very slow and nauseating process. If I had to be executed, I would probably choose nitrogen asphyxiation over any other method.
Sarco Pod
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During the Cold War the Soviets developed a gun that enabled an assassin to silently fire a chemical into any part of the victim’s body, and it would trigger a fatal heart attack within several seconds. The poison chemical was said to be impossible to detect by autopsy.
US submarines too.
35 years to put the SOB to death. Shame on the system. Shame!
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35 years receiving every form of physical and psychological care needed to remain in good health, along with every form of entertainment and recreation available to the public, library facilities, and free legal representation, all paid for at taxpayers’ expense INCLUDING taxes paid by the family members of the VICTIM!
LOL Here’s a little secret: If you replace the oxygen in the air with nitrogen, whatever is breathing that gas will die from lack of oxygen.
Remember the rule of threes: Three weeks without food, three days without water, three minutes without oxygen.
Nitrogen is one of the gases used in anaesthesia.
Wrap him in det cord!
He might even just disappear.
Yep. They were probably the first to realize the necessity for CO2 scrubbers.
A cautionary heads up for folks who get dry ice in a power outages to save their food from spoiling.
What have they been going for here .... execution by old age?
Buy the bullet .... have a lottery for the trigger 1$ a ticket.
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