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.
And you know this how? If you are in a chamber filled with nitrogen, you aren’t even going to know it. You will breathe normally, until you fall asleep. Have you ever had anesthesia for anything? Every time I’ve done it, I’ve told myself that I will fight it as long as possible, just as a test (I have also lied on every polygraph test I’ve taken, just for fun, and to prove how worthless polygraphs are). When they tell me to count backwards from 10, I never make it past 8.
If you think that they are going to hold their breathe long enough to exhibit any symptoms of CO² poisoning, you are delusional. It is simply impossible. Go ahead and try it right now. Try to hold your breathe until you are in “agony,” as it was put it in a previous post. You will NEVER reach that point. You will involuntarily breathe after 60 seconds or so. People like Navy Seals can hold their breath longer, but that’s after a lot of training.
BTW, this is the same reason that it is impossible for your finger to snap off after becoming doused with Liquid Nitrogen, which is -320° F. It is literally the same as sticking your finger in a fire until burns enough to fall off. You couldn’t do it, your brain would force you to involuntarily yank it out of the fire. Same with LN. As cold as it is, you would have to immerse your finger for an extended period of time before it would be cold enough to snap off, and nobody could withstand that pain.
You have an issue with Capital Punishment, so you are trying to shoot down any possible method, but your arguments with this method simply don’t hold water. Compared to the medieval methods we have used on the past, Nitrogen IS a humane, effective, and efficient method of execution. THAT is what this discussion is about, not the overall morality of Capital Punishment. IF we are going to have Capital Punishment, then we should do it as efficiently, and humanely as possible, and nothing offers that better than Nitrogen.
And you know this how? If you are in a chamber filled with nitrogen, you aren’t even going to know it. You will breathe normally, until you fall asleep. Have you ever had anesthesia for anything? Every time I’ve done it, I’ve told myself that I will fight it as long as possible, just as a test (I have also lied on every polygraph test I’ve taken, just for fun, and to prove how worthless polygraphs are). When they tell me to count backwards from 10, I never make it past 8.
If you think that they are going to hold their breathe long enough to exhibit any symptoms of CO² poisoning, you are delusional. It is simply impossible. Go ahead and try it right now. Try to hold your breathe until you are in “agony,” as it was put it in a previous post. You will NEVER reach that point. You will involuntarily breathe after 60 seconds or so. People like Navy Seals can hold their breath longer, but that’s after a lot of training.
BTW, this is the same reason that it is impossible for your finger to snap off after becoming doused with Liquid Nitrogen, which is -320° F. It is literally the same as sticking your finger in a fire until burns enough to fall off. You couldn’t do it, your brain would force you to involuntarily yank it out of the fire. Same with LN. As cold as it is, you would have to immerse your finger for an extended period of time before it would be cold enough to snap off, and nobody could withstand that pain.
You have an issue with Capital Punishment, so you are trying to shoot down any possible method, but your arguments with this method simply don’t hold water. Compared to the medieval methods we have used on the past, Nitrogen IS a humane, effective, and efficient method of execution. THAT is what this discussion is about, not the overall morality of Capital Punishment. IF we are going to have Capital Punishment, then we should do it as efficiently, and humanely as possible, and nothing offers that better than Nitrogen.