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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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That would not be “cruel and unusual” under the Constitution. So long as this was the standard means, it would not be unusual. Since the death would not include the intentional infliction of pain, it does not legally qualify as cruel. Of course, that is only if we read the Constitution as meaning what it says and not as a “living” document that means whatever the thugs on the left want that week. I approve of death by N2 asphyxiation.
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Why not use what Hospice has found painless and effective- morphine.
Nitrogen? Maybe if the person was thrown into a tub of frozen liquid nitrogen. Flash frozen.
Nitrogen asphyxiation is the same as passing out. You lose peripheral vision, your reaction time slows, just like alcohol poisoning. However, with a sudden flood of nitrogen, you would pass out completely in about 20 seconds.
It would be very easy to learn from emergency responders and workers who have been rescued from oxygen deficient atmospheres whether there is any pain or suffering. From everything I’ve read, there isn’t.
—I say will kill them exactly the way
—they killed their victim.
Variant on a Eye for a Eye...
Does that work for Rape also?
Ouch
Has the guillotine ever failed?
I mean, if it’s good enough for our livestock...
How about hanging? A properly-conducted hanging is easy, simple, quick, and relatively painless. It doesn’t take much skill or practice, doesn’t require medical personnel, nor dealing with firearms, nor dealing with sophisticated equipment. Just a sufficiently-long length of rope, a horizontal beam, and enough room to drop to make it effective.
Executions should be subcontracted to the local dog pound.
Dogs are being put down every day so I don’t understand how they can be out of the chemical. Or would it be politically incorrect to use the same chemical. I can hear the whining now.
What about exsanguination? That would be relatively cheap, quick, and no pain.
The fact that there is so much discussion of this is evidence of the value of human life and the human body’s built-in aversion to death.
The firing squad, for all of its dramatic excess of noise and physical damage, is hard to beat for quickness.
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