Sounds complicated. Better to keep it simple using a rope and gravity.... or if the state has some very high buildings or cliffs, just gravity.
Maybe, but it poses no danger to bystanders.
I favor the Firing Squad.
Why not helium for the amusement of all?
Nitrogen gas is very simple. Much simpler than a hanging.
Just strap a mask on the guy’s face, give him a steady flow of pure nitrogen, and he’s gone.
Nitrogen is colorless and odorless. It does not support life. It does not cause any physiological effects other than unconsciousness leading to death.
You’re breathing impure nitrogen right now.
But the atmosphere is 79% nitrogen .. Can’t have a shortage...from scared manufactures holding back the product.
Perp gets essentially deprived of oxygen ...sad...but he did it to them, now it’s his turn to die...
his 2 minutes of struggle were from him holding his breath.
He should have taken a deep breath and gotten it over with.
Then again it my be he was trying to delay his departure to hell for 2 minutes.
“Sounds complicated. “
No Carl, it’s easy and cheap.
Fairly simple. Put them in an air-tight enclosure. Pump in nitrogen. They fall asleep and die within minutes.
Nitrogen asphyxiation is commonly used to kill stray animals. No deadly chemicals to endanger people working in the death chamber, mortuary or funeral home. Easily administered. Relatively painless.
Respiratory distress is caused by the inability to expel carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide asphyxiation is extremely painful. A convict undergoing nitrogen asphyxiation becomes light headed before passing out, and eventually dying. It is similar to what a person experiences in a decompression event without oxygen. I have experienced rapid decompression and gradual decompression in Air Force training (as a contractor - one week course) and it was not at all unpleasant. They managed not to kill us.