“Untried”? I am sure it has been tested on animals.
It would be difficult for anyone to claim it’s cruel and unusual punishment considering how quickly it works.
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.
what is it??? tooo damn good for them...
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.
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.
Works fine. Big in the self-suicide groups.
Carbon Monoxide is even better.
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.
The bends?
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.