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Alabama wants executions by nitrogen hypoxia: What is it?
Associated Press ^ | September 13, 2022 | Kim Chandler

Posted on 09/13/2022 2:40:52 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: em2vn
Are you sure you don't mean methane? Nitrogen does not damage at all, as the article states: we breathe it all our lives. It's only the lack of oxygen that gives the dirt nap.
41 posted on 09/13/2022 3:40:55 PM PDT by Theophilus (It's fake and defective)
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To: Jonny7797

Even cheaper and a whole lot less messy is to inject them with a lethal dose of the fentanyl they are always seizing.


42 posted on 09/13/2022 3:44:30 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every leftist is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: Olog-hai

As a college student I took a big hit of 100% Nitrogen, things got awfully dark, very quickly. Years back some dentist’s son pinched an E cylinder of nitrous oxide and decided to crack it in a closet with friends. The result was four dead teens. The same could be said for the hypobaric chamber used to euthanize animals. There’s a loss of consciousness in seconds, but death may take twenty minutes.


43 posted on 09/13/2022 4:06:36 PM PDT by Babba Gi
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To: Olog-hai

what is it??? tooo damn good for them...


44 posted on 09/13/2022 4:15:25 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Olog-hai

It is VERY painless... In fact, there was a contractor who died because N2 was in his respirator line instead of compressed air or O2. He never noticed until he fell asleep and did not wake.


45 posted on 09/13/2022 4:16:19 PM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: DannyTN

“I’m for the most painless death possible.”

Not me, I have a strong vindictive streak.
Most of those monsters caused their victims a lot of pain before they killed them. Let the punishment fit the crime I say.
Painless punishment is no punishment at all.


46 posted on 09/13/2022 4:21:31 PM PDT by oldvirginian
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To: qwerty1234

For the record wifee and I never watched that series after that. See I can’t even remember the name...zombies something.


47 posted on 09/13/2022 4:24:57 PM PDT by mcshot (If we're the best of the bunch we're in trouble.)
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To: oldvirginian

You’re sending them to meet their maker. Nothing you can do is going to be a more just punishment than what He does to them.
Any additional pain you cause is just delaying their final judgement, and is more about you than anyone else. If the death penalty isn’t a deterrent to others, a painful death penalty isn’t going to be either.


48 posted on 09/13/2022 4:27:45 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

Exodus 21:24-25
24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

I’m an Old Testament type. I was raised that way and don’t see myself changing. Society was a lot better off when the death penalty was used and was painful.


49 posted on 09/13/2022 4:59:57 PM PDT by oldvirginian
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To: Olog-hai

I worked for the phone company for 30 years and retired. One of the main safety reminders we got was test a man hole before going in. We had a few that pulled the cover and jumped in and died very quickly. Some even jumped in trying to save their buddy and died also thinking they could hold their breath and get them out. It seems quick and efficient.


50 posted on 09/13/2022 5:08:22 PM PDT by chuckles
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To: Jonny7797

“why get fancy.”

Exactly. Alabama is wasting everyone’s time.

Stick with something that works.


51 posted on 09/13/2022 5:30:52 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Olog-hai

Works fine. Big in the self-suicide groups.

Carbon Monoxide is even better.


52 posted on 09/13/2022 5:49:50 PM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Putin is behaving rationally.The war is on Biden and Obama. )
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To: Olog-hai

The feeling that you’re suffocating is triggered by CO2 buildup. Helium is the suicide gas of choice but nitrogen does the same thing. It displaces the CO2 in the air so there isn’t any build-up.

If you’ve ever breathed from a helium balloon and it made you light-headed, continuing to breathe it would have made you pass out. Breathe it for long enough once you’ve passed out and you die.

I’ve never passed out but I’ve breathed it enough (so I could talk like a chipmunk) that I know it isn’t unpleasant.


53 posted on 09/13/2022 5:53:02 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

Hmm; isn’t “self-suicide” a redundant phrase . . . ?


54 posted on 09/13/2022 5:56:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

The bends?


55 posted on 09/13/2022 6:09:50 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: Paal Gulli

There’s also sulfur hexafluoride, which has the opposite effect on your voice, making it sound lower-pitched.


56 posted on 09/13/2022 6:19:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

All this dancing around with the death penalty is just stupid pandering to the anti-execution crowd. Any anesthetist can put a guy painlessly to sleep in a moment or two, then give him a shot of cyanide. Done.


57 posted on 09/13/2022 6:45:07 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.6.)
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To: Theophilus

No, I mean nitrogen. It is, or was, used to pressurize telephone cables in manhole runs so that paper insulated cables remained dry. In its pure form it is lethal.


58 posted on 10/25/2022 5:44:11 AM PDT by em2vn
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To: Olog-hai

They weren’t need when proper safety measures were followed, such as proper ventilation of all manholes, and gas meters used to check for explosive gasses and to check for the level of oxygen in the spaces.


59 posted on 10/25/2022 5:48:26 AM PDT by em2vn
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