[Clutch Martin]

If they used an inert gas they wouldn’t expensive chemicals that are difficult to obtain.

[redfreedom]

“If they used an inert gas they wouldn’t expensive chemicals that are difficult to obtain.”

I disagree. Inert chemicals still means some sort of sealed chamber, with a window for witnesses to watch and medical gadgets to tell when they’ve croaked. This is still costly.

Just take one of the guards hand guns, take a bullet that would ordinarily be used for qualifying, take the condemned to the morgue and just do it. The ME can certify the death and we they are done. Costs are really minimized.

[NorthMountain]

Pure dry nitrogen is dirt cheap, nontoxic, and lethal in short order.

[metmom]

If they used an inert gas they wouldn’t expensive chemicals that are difficult to obtain.

Nitrogen.

They'd just suffocate as the oxygen was displaced.

They'd pass out and have a much more merciful end than their victims did.

Then they can face God and deal with the consequences for eternity.