“Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total.”

Pretty compassionate way to kill a person.

Once again, the Law in the south is brutal.

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    Isn’t it the same way they let sick people kill themselves? I remember seeing a recent story about someone using a new capsule. They get inside it; it fills with nitrogen; and they drift away.

    I’m no fan of the death penalty. Just genuinely interested in whether I’m correctly remembering that the best known voluntary method matches the new execution method.

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      9 months ago

      Apparently they thought they could skimp on the capsule and just use a mask. Cheap and evil.

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      The key difference is that you need something to be actively removing the CO2, not just replacing the O2 with nitrogen.
      Suffocation, as in the choking and suffering, is caused by carbon dioxide buildup, not lack of oxygen.

      In humane suicide or confined space accidents, there’s no oxygen but you can freely get rid of CO2. It’s why workers test before going into sewer pipes and wear safety harnesses and sensors, and setup ventilation hoses. Without them they wouldn’t even notice they were dying until they got loopy and fell over.

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      Method is important. The medium is the same (nitrogen) But putting an “oxygen” mask on someone and plumbing it to nitrogen is a different method than putting someone in a chamber that is sealed and the oxygen and exhaled carbon dioxide* are quickly displaced.

      *Carbon dioxide is what makes you feel like you’re suffocating.