There's an even cheaper method, but people don't like to consider it:
Posted on 03/17/2015 7:18:35 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
As it becomes increasingly difficult to obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections, several states have sought to resurrect bygone ways of killing death-row inmates.
In Utah, which outlawed death by firing squad in 2004, lawmakers voted last week to reinstate that execution method should the state run out of drugs for lethal injection. Tennessee chose the electric chair last year as its own backup method. Last week, the Alabama House passed a bill that would do the same. Similar measures in Virginia, Missouri, and Wyoming failed last year.
But in Oklahoma, a bill is advancing that would introduce an entirely new and untested method of execution: death by nitrogen inhalation.
“It’s probably the best thing we’ve come up with since the start of executing people by government,” the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Mike Christian (R) told the Oklahoman.
How would such an execution work?
Nitrogen gas itself is odorless and nontoxic, and makes up 78 percent of the atmosphere. It only becomes lethal when someone breathes it in at high concentrations, and only then because that person is therefore not getting enough oxygen.
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Wouldn’t Nitrogen asphyxiation be similar to drinking oneself to death?
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while this is not relevant to the topic...I must state that I read the headline as Obama...>wanting< to try asphyxiating inmates with nitrogen...
which is cheaper, asphyxiation or bullets?
Perhaps Jihad John would hire out on the cheap. Bring back the beheading.
There's an even cheaper method, but people don't like to consider it:
How about the 10000 ft drop out of an airplane. The ride down is probably fun and it is only the sudden stop that kills.
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Death by Nitrogen would be a lot less bloody.
I say will kill them exactly the way they killed their victim.
I have a perfect way to put these monsters away. In the OLD SOVIET UNION, whenever a criminal is given a death sentence, they never tell the PERP when it will be. What the prison guards do, is create a noise outside the PERP’S cell. When the “PERP” looks through the peep hole to see what the noise is about, one of the guards shoots through the peep hole. Oh, by the way, the relatives of the PERP is charged for the bullet.
The guillotine was quick and efficient.
OK. That was very disturbing.
My problem with Utah using firing squads is that there is a 100% chance Bloomberg would count it as “gun violence”.
gun violence is sometimes necessary....
Judge Parker had a system that worked at Fort Smith.
The gas is cheap.
Because it is viewed as a quick and probably painless way to die, death by hypoxia has become popular among people seeking to commit suicide. The procedure typically involves what is called an exit bag—a plastic tent wrapped around the head that is filled with an inert gas like nitrogen or helium. (The method is similar to what has been discussed in Oklahoma.)
I can’t imagine anything much cheaper than the method described above. And the bag would be reusable.
But knowing the love of politicians to spend money you can bet that this simple cheap process would become unnecessarily complicated with a chamber that would contain the entire body of the condemned prisoner and an automated delivery system for the gas. similar to what the gas chamber was in the 1940s.
Simple and cheap just doesn’t do it for the political class.
Yeah, when divers get too much nitrogen in the mix, they get intoxicated and it is supposed to be very similar to the effects of alcohol.
Sounds good.
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