Alabama has executed a man by nitrogen gas for helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a drug debt. Anthony Boyd was pronounced dead Thursday evening at William C.
Alabama has maintained that any shaking or gasping exhibited by inmates during nitrogen gas executions are largely involuntary actions caused by oxygen deprivation.
Alabama is so fucking stupid. A proper exit bag with inert gas is painless without “involuntary actions”. You’re out like a light. I guess these morons have never heard of maintenance workers dropping into a manhole and instantly passing out due to accumulated H2S: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/OHB/FACE/CDPH Document Library/11CA008.pdf
Even when drowning, your lungs will only spasm a few times and it doesn’t take 15 minutes to die. What a bunch of cruel, stupid fucks. It is obvious the mask doesn’t prevent air (with oxygen) from getting in, so they’re just very slowly asphyxiating people to death
The cruelty is the point. Americans call it “justice”, but what they really mean is revenge porn. Of course, they murder innocent people as well, but they still insist it is a deterrent when regions with death penalties have higher murder rates than regions without.
It’s not about deterrents or justice, it’s about power over people of color who can’t afford good legal representation.
Exit International uses nitrogen in its Sarco pods for the same reason - it’s intended to be a low-distress method. The sense of suffocation comes from a buildup of carbon dioxide, not from a lack of oxygen. I’m opposed to the death penalty too, but let’s at least keep the physiology straight.
You’re absolutely right and I didn’t make it clear. The reason the bag works is because you exhale before putting it on. The mask likely doesn’t filter the CO2, so the same breath is essentially trapped.
Alabama is so fucking stupid. A proper exit bag with inert gas is painless without “involuntary actions”. You’re out like a light. I guess these morons have never heard of maintenance workers dropping into a manhole and instantly passing out due to accumulated H2S: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DEODC/OHB/FACE/CDPH Document Library/11CA008.pdf
Even when drowning, your lungs will only spasm a few times and it doesn’t take 15 minutes to die. What a bunch of cruel, stupid fucks. It is obvious the mask doesn’t prevent air (with oxygen) from getting in, so they’re just very slowly asphyxiating people to death
The cruelty is the point. Americans call it “justice”, but what they really mean is revenge porn. Of course, they murder innocent people as well, but they still insist it is a deterrent when regions with death penalties have higher murder rates than regions without.
It’s not about deterrents or justice, it’s about power over people of color who can’t afford good legal representation.
They only have to pretend that they want it to be painless.
Exit International uses nitrogen in its Sarco pods for the same reason - it’s intended to be a low-distress method. The sense of suffocation comes from a buildup of carbon dioxide, not from a lack of oxygen. I’m opposed to the death penalty too, but let’s at least keep the physiology straight.
You’re absolutely right and I didn’t make it clear. The reason the bag works is because you exhale before putting it on. The mask likely doesn’t filter the CO2, so the same breath is essentially trapped.
Among the multitude of others reasons I oppose the death penalty, it seems that the state is too fucking incompetent.
The cruelty is the point. Could they do it painlessly? Absolutely. Will they? Hell no.