Alabama to allow first execution using nitrogen hypoxia

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On Wednesday, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in favor of a motion to allow the state to execute Kenneth Smith with nitrogen hypoxia.

The use of nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method has never been tested. The gas has a history of being extremely deadly and could pose a threat to the staff and spiritual advisers present in the execution chamber.

Attorney General Steve Marshall posted a statement on X, formerly Twitter, after the court granted his motion to allow Alabama to use nitrogen hypoxia on Smith.

Alison Mollman, interim legal director of the ACLU of Alabama, made a statement denouncing the use of nitrogen hypoxia. Mollman stated that Marshall and Governor Kay Ivey could be putting the lives of staff, spiritual advisers, media, and victims at risk if they do not stop Smith’s execution.

Alabama previously tried to execute Smith last year but failed due to a botched lethal injection. Now, they are trying again, only with a method never tested before and could harm or kill others.

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marvlouslie said:
Why can't we just shoot people anymore?
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Because lethal injections are way more profitable. A .357 round costs what, 70 cents?

I agree with you though. Either draw lots among volunteer officers or offer the job of State gunsmith to someone willing to shoot every death row inmate in Alabama.
 
Point 707 said:
Just shoot someone up with a load of morphine and make them breathe in the inert gas, and they're guaranteed to be dead within 10 minutes. It's impossible to fuck up unless you somehow don't use the correct gas
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I'd like to introduce death by helium.
It's slow and funny.
 
What is it with America and retarded execution methods? Firing squad is the easiest and cheapest way to go. Doesn't fail at all, especially headshots.
Keep the gas for the kikes when the time comes.
 
Manul Otocolobus said:
If this goes well (which it should unless they fuck it up to 3 stooges level of incompetence) I can guarantee it will quickly become the new standard.
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I feel like this is why the Ohio legislature hasn't done anything about the death penalty for a few years now, despite the governor saying "no new executions until we find a method to replace lethal injection." I feel like they're waiting for Alabama to gas Smith and then they'll ram through a bill to adopt nitrogen gas as the default method.
 
I hate people who overcomplicate things. Give them some sleeping pills and then behead them.
 
I would prefer they kill me slaughterhouse style than this. High voltage bolt straight into the brain to cause instant and total death. I imagine in this gas method there's a muggy sensation like drowning as your body shuts down and who is to say there is not some lingering thought as your brain is still slowly shutting down from oxygen starvation after external body signs had ceased?

But failing being taken out like a bull, give me the firing squad. I want the chance to refuse the blindfold and look my killers in the eye when they do it. Hopefully give at least a few of them trauma nightmares afterwards. Hell, if they don't gag me I can sing something patriotic/Christian/anti-authoritarian while they do it.

Fuck 'em. Yeah, give me old school firing squad if they're going to do it. But they're wont - they're too squeamish. To these people anything that involves blood is inherently worse no matter how little sense that makes.
 
Gronk_Destroyer of Homos said:
Kenneth Smith's lawyers previously argued that lethal injection was inhumane and that nitrogen hypoxia is a humane alternative, but now they're arguing that nitrogen hypoxia is "untested." Great way to win a gold medal in mental gymnastics, bucko.
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Maybe his whole legal strategy was to perpetually postpone his execution by slapping down each method as it is proposed.
>state: let's kill him via lethal injection
>defense: lethal injection is inhumane! You should file to do nitrogen hypoxia instead
>state: we've processed all the paperwork to have him executed via nitrogen hypoxia
>defense: nitrogen hypoxia is inhumane, you should do XYZ instead
rinse and repeat
 
Manul Otocolobus said:
unless they fuck it up to 3 stooges level of incompetence
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These are the same people who already had the long time knowledge of people dying in their homes to carbon monoxide poisoning without even realizing what's killing them, yet somehow come up with some rube-goldbergesque cocktail of chemicals that are expensive, hard to acquire, and easy to fuck up.
 
Apex Ralphamale said:
Maybe his whole legal strategy was to perpetually postpone his execution by slapping down each method as it is proposed.
>state: let's kill him via lethal injection
>defense: lethal injection is inhumane! You should file to do nitrogen hypoxia instead
>state: we've processed all the paperwork to have him executed via nitrogen hypoxia
>defense: nitrogen hypoxia is inhumane, you should do XYZ instead
rinse and repeat
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"We intend to let him die of old age and leave behind a stack of unpaid legal bills, how's THAT?!"
 
xn--mck1c said:
These are the same people who already had the long time knowledge of people dying in their homes to carbon monoxide poisoning without even realizing what's killing them, yet somehow come up with some rube-goldbergesque cocktail of chemicals that are expensive, hard to acquire, and easy to fuck up.
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It's the government we're talking about. Are you really surprised that they could overcomplicate something as simple as killing a dude? :story:
 
Manul Otocolobus said:
If you ever want to read the definitive occurrence of that phenomenon, read up on the Byford Dolphin diving bell "incident". Just the text description of what happened in the investigation report is nightmare fuel. I strongly suggest you do not look for the actual pictures that were part of the investigation.
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Diver 4 was essentially de-boned by a giant vacuum. Besides the 'invagination' 9atm->1atm depressurization through a narrow opening seems like an ideal execution method.

(Note: The PDF contains images of the corpses)
 

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Why don't we just use firing squads? Its fast, cheap, easy, painless, dignified, with the last thing you seeing being the daybreak and has next to no risk of failure.

Yeah I guess using chemicals is slightly less painful in the split second between the bullets connecting and you dying, but the chance of failure, the cost, the fact that you're strapped in a BDSM machine in a closed room with no sunlight surely outweigh the one pro no?

It seems like all these elaborate capital punishment methods only exist for the benefit of the observers instead of the wellbeing of the to-be executed.
 
So the first execution of this guy failed. I wonder if he's going to get a second last meal? Lucky fuck...
 
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