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Alabama set to be first state to execute a prisoner by forcing them to breathe pure nitrogen
New York Post ^ | August 27, 2023 | Landon Mion

Posted on 08/28/2023 3:15:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Alabama may become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen, a death penalty method that is authorized by three states but has never been used.

The office of Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall asked the state Supreme Court in a court filing on Friday to set an execution date for 58-year-old death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith. The filing revealed Alabama intends to put him to death by nitrogen hypoxia.

Smith was one of two men convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire killing of a preacher’s wife. “It is a travesty that Kenneth Smith has been able to avoid his death sentence for nearly 35 years after being convicted of the heinous murder-for-hire slaying of an innocent woman, Elizabeth Sennett,” Marshall said in a statement.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: deathpenalty; hypoxia; kennetheugenesmith; nextrushisanidiot; nitrogen
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To: G Larry

“ I believe Nitrogen will create the same symptoms as “The Bends.”

You believe incorrectly.

L


21 posted on 08/28/2023 3:31:04 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: nickcarraway

I like the idea, but wouldn’t that be forced suffocation? A 45acp to the head would be faster and more satisfying.


22 posted on 08/28/2023 3:31:04 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: nickcarraway

Let him do it and give him a last cigarette and his own lighter with it.


23 posted on 08/28/2023 3:31:12 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Lurker

My arguments against the unjust death penalty are found here (under “Jim W N”).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4176924/posts


24 posted on 08/28/2023 3:31:20 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Jim W N

And those arguments are wrong.

L


25 posted on 08/28/2023 3:31:58 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: nickcarraway

This is what the liberals wanted.

They harassed drug companies to not sell the execution drugs to states with the death penalty so this is it.

I hope they are happy.


26 posted on 08/28/2023 3:32:17 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Jim W N

Ya know, I’ve been pro-death penalty for my entire life. But the way the courts have been weaponized, the way law enforcement has shown itself to be not only untrustworthy but treasonous, and the methods TPTB use to railroad and destroy those that disagree with them has got me thinking it over more and more.


27 posted on 08/28/2023 3:32:43 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: nickcarraway

I have always said, use the same thing the animal pounds use to put down stray animals!

If it is humane enough to execute an innocent stray with, surely its humane enough to execute a murderer!


28 posted on 08/28/2023 3:33:38 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: nickcarraway

Only veterinarians should administer lethal doses of anything to carry out death sentences.
They are always doing the humane thing, nothing cruel and unusual, putting animals to sleep.


29 posted on 08/28/2023 3:34:31 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Jim W N

How come there is a right way to “assist suicide” or euthanize?


30 posted on 08/28/2023 3:34:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Jim W N

“Unjust” death penalty?

Stating that obviously means there are “just” death penalties.

The death penalty has always been of God who has always prescribed death to evil wrongdoers.

Who are you or I to argue with God?


31 posted on 08/28/2023 3:36:06 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: G Larry

Wrong, you just go to sleep and never wake up. Happens sometimes in confined spaces, workers just pass out and peacefully die.


32 posted on 08/28/2023 3:36:18 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: nickcarraway
How come there is a right way to “assist suicide” or euthanize?

I didn't know there was one.

33 posted on 08/28/2023 3:37:05 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: G Larry
I believe Nitrogen will create the same symptoms as "The Bends", experienced by SCUBA divers after ascending too fast.

That's not correct. Breathing pure nitrogen will cause hypoxia, loss of consciousness, and death ... all in very short order. Decompression sickness (AKA "the bends") is explained in great detail on wikihahahapedia, among other more legitimate sites.

34 posted on 08/28/2023 3:38:13 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Jim W N

What’s an “unjust death penalty”? All death penalties, or those subjected to it who are innocent?


35 posted on 08/28/2023 3:38:14 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: G Larry

That’s decompression sickness, where nitrogen comes out of solution in the blood and forms bubbles. Different situation.


36 posted on 08/28/2023 3:40:00 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: Jim W N

Ok got it, you are liberal on capital punishment.


37 posted on 08/28/2023 3:40:25 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Lurker

“And those arguments are wrong.”

Spoken like an elementary school child.

This is a debate forum that requires adult-level rationale and reasonable support for refuting an argument.

Premise, rational argument, rational conclusion.

Your conclusion is no argument.


38 posted on 08/28/2023 3:41:26 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Retrofitted

My arguments against the unjust death penalty are found here (under “Jim W N”).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4176924/posts


39 posted on 08/28/2023 3:41:58 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

My arguments against the unjust death penalty are found here (under “Jim W N”).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4176924/posts


40 posted on 08/28/2023 3:43:20 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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