Posted on 01/26/2024 11:23:15 AM PST by RandFan
What’s the point of giving someone a drug to make them fall unconscious, to prevent them from from experiencing the sensation of falling unconscious from nitrogen?
Don’t bother trying to figure it out. Some of the comments about this, even on this website, are hysterical, and not “funny” hysterical.
Being executed by breathing in pure nitrogen is probably the most humane way to put someone to death who doesn’t deserve that level of humanity.
And cost effective.
Industry has plenty of accounts of two or three people one after another, losing their lives trying to get to someone out of a large tank or nitrogen filled space that had not been purged before someone went in.
One goes in to drag the first one out, and falls in a heap right on top of the person who is down. Then another person tries and meets the same fate.
Those people didn’t call for help, thrash around or anything at all. They were out cold even before their knees buckled and they began their descent to the deck.
If someone doesn’t believe in the death penalty, that is their business. But I don’t want to listen to them pontificating.
I would rather not live in a state that didn’t have the death penalty, and if I lived in one that did, I would rather it were carried out swiftly and publicly.
But I do keep in mind that unless we were there, we don’t know how they did it, and that it was “The State” that carried it out.
If you want something done incompetently, stupidly, or poorly, The State has plenty of experience in that, even if they don’t have any experience yet in executing people with pure nitrogen.
Right. And that isn’t the only case of that kind. We don’t have to be inhumane, even to people who don’t deserve it.
But that in no way means that piece of human refuse shouldn’t die.
And in that reality, everything else is details.
I’m thinking that excusing a condemned murderer would only encourage others like him to commit crimes they couldn’t be executed for. Is that justice?
Maybe it was supposed to be nitrous oxide?
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