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Alabama executes death-row prisoner with nitrogen gas
(www.theguardian.com)
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Nah. I know what happens. I've experienced asphyxia.
Have you experienced being murdered by the government in front of an audience? Using a method that's humane if (and ONLY if) you're completely calm and fully cooperative?
The exact circumstances matter.
Yes, precise circumstances matter.
For nitrogen asphyxiation in general, you do not have to be calm and cooperative for it to be painless, any more than you do so to stand in a room or sit in a chair.
As to the specific setup that the government chose, I can't vouch for that.
That's what we're talking about, though! That's the topic!
If I was to go on and on across several comments about how nitrous oxide is pleasant to inhale and then go "I don't know about nitrogen asphyxiation, though" at the end, you'd be very annoyed with me and rightly so!
OK, be annoyed with me then.
What I'm saying is "if the state is going to execute people, then nitrogen asphyxiation is an excellent and humane choice, provided that the state performs the execution properly."
I am not saying anything beyond that. I'm not saying that this specific execution was performed properly. I wouldn't really trust the state to say it was done right, or a reporter to day it was done wrong.
People (and animals) can jerk and twitch when they die. They can gasp and breathe heavily even, sometimes. They are unconscious by that point if asphyxiation is done right. Look into hypoxia, there's a ton of documentation on it, video and otherwise, including direct accounts.
The only thing we can do to make it more humane is a: ensure the method is implemented correctly, and b: provide a choice of methods to the person to be executed.
Of course, that's aside from the question of whether the state is capable of correctly evaluating who should be killed in the first place.