Alabama Makes Plans to Gas Its Prisoners

[douglas9]

Critics called 2022 “the year of the botched execution”—and it was indeed an infamous period, mainly because the state of Alabama lost the ability to competently kill prisoners in its charge while retaining the sovereignty to try.

On July 28, Alabama executed Joe Nathan James Jr., a convicted murderer. And, for some reason—the precise cause remains a mystery because of the extreme degree of confidentiality the state guarantees its executioners—the execution team working that night botched their task badly, piercing James all over his body before evidently cutting into his arm, presumably in search of a visible vein in which to insert an IV catheter. They nevertheless managed to kill him, the results of their work clear in the early-August autopsy I witnessed. I left that experience convinced that Alabama’s next execution would also likely unfold against protocol.




https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/alabama-botched-executions-2022-gas/672607/?utm_source=feed

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Keep trying, Alabama

I know you can come up with something even more grisly if you try. Dropping prisoner into glass tank full of piranhas, for example.

[COL Mustard]

2. I have read where the use of CO2

Would be humane. The condemned is inside a sealed chamber, and carbon dioxide is pumped in. It displaces oxygen and the person essentially just goes to sleep. I don’t know the specifics, and I don’t want to do it myself, but it’s an alternative.


That said, I’ve become almost completely against the death penalty, if for no other reason than you can’t undo it later if you find out you made a mistake.

[mitch96]

4. From what I've read it's not the lack of oxygen that panics the brain..it's the increase of C02

When you exchange breaths you exhale CO2.
If the CO2 level rises in the body the brain goes into panic mode and tries to breath..
If you keep the CO2 levels constant in the body but remove the O2 you just go to sleep from Hypoxia, see the white light and bye bye..
Nitrogen replacing O2 does this, same with Nitrous Oxide...
No O2... well then you get the picture...
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[multigraincracker]

3. Can one pick the gas....

I'll take Nitrous oxide, please.