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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: nickcarraway

Isn’t nitrogen causing “Climate Change”???


81 posted on 08/28/2023 4:36:34 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERBODY'S BUSINESS-REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Jim W N

One might also say that there is no wrong way to do the right thing.


82 posted on 08/28/2023 4:41:15 PM PDT by szweig (HYHEY Have You Had Enough Yet??!?)
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To: G Larry

Nope. One simply goes to sleep. Deep, deep sleep. About six feet deep.


83 posted on 08/28/2023 4:44:16 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Pilsner; Retrofitted

Yes, no one is executed in Maxico.


84 posted on 08/28/2023 4:46:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Nextrush
Isn’t nitrogen causing “Climate Change”???

LOL. You have just set the bar for assessing your intellectual acumen, especially concerning your regular blog pimping.

To be clear: That bar is low, very low.

85 posted on 08/28/2023 4:47:26 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Jim W N

But there is no right way to do the wrong thing.
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True, but we’re talking here about criminals who SHOULD be executed, and within days of their conviction. The old French method was the least likely to involve inhumane complications.


86 posted on 08/28/2023 5:00:19 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t want him wasting oxygen.


87 posted on 08/28/2023 5:06:05 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Responsibility2nd

There’s no wrong way to do the right thing.
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I’m 100% supportive of capital punishment but I believe there is a moral responsibility to employ the fastest, surest, least painful method possible. From what I’ve read, during the Cold War the Soviets developed a silent gun that discharged a chemical which upon penetration caused a fatal heart attack within seconds. And of course the old French execution method was instantaneous and almost never malfunctioned.


88 posted on 08/28/2023 5:13:36 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: Mean Daddy

They always have the “right” drugs for euthanasia patients.
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Pets too!


89 posted on 08/28/2023 5:14:35 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: Macoozie
It worked in Terminator II.


90 posted on 08/28/2023 5:15:30 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: Jim W N

My arguments against the unjust death penalty are found here (under “Jim W N”).
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Don’t believe I know anyone who is not against an unjust death penalty!


91 posted on 08/28/2023 5:19:25 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: G Larry

It won’t. You’d need an ambient pressure change for that. Don’t forget you’re breathing 79% N2 with every breath already; this would be better described as “oxygen depleted” vs breathing nitrogen.


92 posted on 08/28/2023 5:21:04 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: nickcarraway
Hazards of nitrogen asphyxiation bulletin training.

Sounds like a lot of the industrial accidents involved people who did not even know they were dying. Does not seem as if much pain is associated with this form of execution.

93 posted on 08/28/2023 5:27:47 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Jim W N

My arguments against the unjust death penalty are found here (under “Jim W N”).
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There’s not much need for arguments against an unjust death penalty since the definition of the word “unjust” itself makes the issue self-evident.


94 posted on 08/28/2023 5:28:21 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

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


95 posted on 08/28/2023 5:30:55 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: nickcarraway

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


96 posted on 08/28/2023 5:32:10 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
"I have always said, use the same thing the animal pounds use to put down stray animals!"

The companies that make the drug will not sell it to states for the execution of humans. DEI at work.

97 posted on 08/28/2023 5:44:59 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (NRA Life Member)
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve never understood why they don’t just OD the condemned on heroin. Simple yet effective.


98 posted on 08/28/2023 5:46:53 PM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: Rlsau1

Yeah. Hot shots seem to be cheap, easy, and effective in the ghetto.


99 posted on 08/28/2023 5:49:04 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Pilsner

I had no idea. Thanks!


100 posted on 08/28/2023 6:13:09 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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