Judge suggests change to nitrogen execution to let inmate pray and say final words without gas mask
A federal judge who is weighing whether to allow the nation’s first execution by nitrogen hypoxia to go forward next month, urged Alabama on Thursday to change procedures so the inmate can pray and say his final words before the gas mask is placed on his face.
U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker made the suggestion in a court order setting a Dec. 29 deadline to submit information before he rules on the inmate’s request to block the execution. The judge made similar comments the day prior at the conclusion of a court hearing.
Alabama is scheduled to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith on Jan. 25 in what would be the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas. Nitrogen hypoxia is authorized as an execution method in Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma but has never been used to put an inmate to death.
The proposed execution method would use a gas mask, placed over Smith’s nose and mouth, to replace breathable air with nitrogen, causing Smith to die from lack of oxygen.
So easy to build a sealed room. Why use a mask in the first place? Slowly exchange air for nitrogen and the prisoner dies saying his pointless prayer. Never even knows it happened. No suffering, no nothing. Just lights out. Then re exchange for air so the body can be safely collected. This is not rocket surgery.
That sounds like the plan they have already just with an entire room rather than just a small mask. It's the same thing except your plan requires more gas and a bigger dedicated gas chamber with more failure points.
Yep, more expensive.
Why use a mask: because it's cheaper, and helps secure the people nearby (in case of a room leaking, that's a lot of displaced air, while a mask or similar leaking is significantly less of risk in case of uncontrolled release). But I bet mostly because it's cheaper - and remember, it's never been done before (by them, for this purpose).
But like 15 states have gas chambers. They aren't used because all they ever tried was cyanide or carbon monoxide, both of which caused significant suffering. But the effects of nitrogen have been known since the birth of scuba. Cheaper has never mattered. Lethal injection is incredibly expensive, as is running the electric chair. If cost actually mattered hanging or firing squads would be the go to methods. I've personally never been able to grasp why it matters. Why shouldn't these people, who have caused untold amounts of suffering be made to suffer on their way out of existence? These are serial murderers and the like. Personally I think we should add serial rapists to the list of executable offenders. I simply do not understand why the worst of men should receive any kindness at all. They gave none to their victims. And so fucking what if they are remorseful. If you commit atrocities you should be handled in kind and definitely do not deserve to be kept alive like some pet of the state fed on the taxpayers' dime.
And what if they didn't do it? What if you brutally torture someone to death and later a key witness reveals that they lied? Or evidence proving their innocence isn't discovered until decades later. It happens all the time.
It's not a "what if."
One in 8 sentenced to death is later exonerated.
Most executions take years or even decades to even happen and scenarios like you suggested are extremely rare.
It's more like 16% sentenced to death are innocent. The point of the seemingly endless appeals is that the process is so fucked already more than 15% of the initial sentences are changed during appeal because someone somewhere fucked up... And you want to add more people to this process?
Stop swallowing the GOP lies. That sort of conservative bullshit belongs on Fox. Leave it there.
There's something wrong inside you.
I'm just pragmatic and the rest of you seem to be controlled by knee jerk emotional responses. You waste a lot of energy having to have feelings about everything.
Who else do you think deserves to be tortured to death?
Because cruelty.
But it is brain science
Person fucking dies that's like the ultimate suffering i can think of, holy fuck killing people can't be made humane no matter how many different methods are used
I don't think you know what the word suffering means.
Physical or mental pain someone experiences dying will definitely be mentally painful if you know its gonna happen and once someone stops responding and the brainwaves go spaz i don't think thats especially nice either not 100% sure as i've never Been braindead
People aren't given the death penalty for giving out flowers and candy.
Yeah 1 in 8 are given it for no reason at all and later exonerated.
agree and i think there are some circumstances where Kipling someone is justified but its never ethical, especially if the Person doesn't Pose a threat anymore
How exactly is something 'justified but not ethical'?
If something saves more people by killing some the action of killing few is unethical however because it saves more the action is just
Everyone poses a threat to everyone. The question is to what extent. Of course, you have no idea what you're talking about, so there's that.
Ad hominem
There are absolutely bigger pains of suffering besides certain deaths.
Have you died yet? its certainly the worst thing i can imagine
Luckily no but there are absolutely things I fear worse than death. To each their own I guess
This i can agree with but for me its death
Fuck you're stupid.
You are and Werke mad of a series of poor choices i don't envie your Patents
You have a very poor imagination.
ad hominem
Well, there isn't anything else of substance to attack, so what passes for your character is the most effective way to let you know what a piece of shit you are.
Arent you the guy who wants to kill people? Like i try to be a pacifist but your steamed turd of a persobality stinks up my house through the screen
Luke, I am your father.