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Originally posted by 229DAK:
Or maybe place these scumbags in a room full of liquid nitrogen?

And a terminal tap with a.little brass hammer. *Tink*

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Originally posted by SevenPlusOne:
It would be funnier if we used Nitrous oxide.

One of these days you're gonna laugh yourself to death.

The sealed cell idea is brilliant. To be truly 'humane' and not cause 'suffering', these individuals should not be told the exact date of their removal from mankind. Simply inform their attorney when the legal manipulations have been exhausted.

Rope was good enough for Dick and Perry!

For years, I've argued for using nitrogen hypoxia. I never understood why this had to be made so complicated: electric chairs, gas chambers, complicated drug cocktails, so much bullshit. N2 is quick, cheap, painless, perfect. You really don't even need a sealed room. A welding tank and a breathing mask. Done. No muss. No fuss.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
Normally, when a person suffocates they will experience severe pain as carbon dioxide builds up in the bloodstream.

The libs don’t like it:

“The state knows shockingly little about how this would work.”

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“It’s nonsense, empirically,” said Joel B. Zivot, an anesthesiologist at Emory University, in a 2015 interview with The Marshall Project.

No medical research exists, for example, as to whether the nitrogen should be released gradually or all at once to achieve the intended effect. Nothing is known about what might happen if the prisoner resists by thrashing or breaking the seal of his mask — or by refusing to breathe, which could lead to a painful accumulation of carbon dioxide in the lungs.”

The next paragraph is a “no shit?” moment:

“In his statement to the German newspaper Der Spiegel, Christian may have revealed his and Oklahoma’s actual reason for adopting such an untested execution protocol. One way or another, he said, “We will put these beasts to death.”

https://www.themarshallproject...people-with-nitrogen

His concerns with the mask are why it should just be a semi sealed room. No need for restraints, mask etc. If he runs around, he'll just go down faster.

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Originally posted by TMats:

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They argue that there is not sufficiently strong evidence to prove the safety and legality of the new process.

Safety?!? We’re trying to kill the mother fucker!

That raised an eyebrow for me as well.

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"cruel and unusual punishment" as prohibited by the Constitution.

The true "cruel and unusual" is far far far more painful and gory than anything ever put upon an inmate. Think Middle Ages and Renaissance torture ...

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Originally posted by RichN:

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Originally posted by SevenPlusOne:
It would be funnier if we used Nitrous oxide.

One of these days you're gonna laugh yourself to death.

A few years ago here in Utah there was an incident in which some teenagers swiped a N2O tank from the father/dentist's office and had a party. I guess they thought it would be more discreet to sniff it inside a closet. The parents came home to find a closet-full of dead teenagers. Very tragic.

I had never tried nitrous until about year ago, when I had a root canal and they offered it. I remember thinking that it didn't seem to dull the pain at all, but I couldn't really concentrate on the pain because everything was so hilariously funny in a very "dry" sense. I was thinking "This must be how Steven Wright writes his comedy routines."

And they can use those little green N2 valve stem caps to keep the toe tags on......

I was given pure No2 by accident during a dental procedure. Everything started going really dark and quickly snapped back when O2 was added.
No pain just dimming of the lights.

Alabama did the same thing, I thought that ole sparky should be brought out of retirement.

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Originally posted by guardianangel762:
I was given pure No2 by accident during a dental procedure.

Did they figure out what malfunctioned?

Every dental nitrous regulator I’ve seen has a safety mechanism that maintains a minimum 30% oxygen.

Sealed room with a huge meat grinder build in the floor. First button takes care of the problem, second button cleans up the mess.

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Originally posted by RichN:

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Originally posted by SevenPlusOne:
It would be funnier if we used Nitrous oxide.

One of these days you're gonna laugh yourself to death.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

I've been overcome with N2 twice, both times got very lucky. Your there one second, and out the next, literally. You feel or realize nothing. One time I was trying to rescue, for the lack of a better word, someone who had already been overcome. I was smart enough to call for help before I went in. I thought he is only a couple feet away I can hold my breath and get him out quick. Bad move. We both ended up getting rescued.

They use nitrogen in "suicide bags," right? So if it's good enough for people who want to off themselves, it should be good enough for executions. But I'm willing to let the folks who think it's too cruel propose a method that would satisfy them.