Not enough attention was paid to the delivery mechanism and most of the attention was on Nitrogen gas in the abstract. The lawsuit was a total scattershot approach of throwing everything at the wall in order to delay or prevent this execution. It made it too easy to focus on the things that were absolutely wrong and not examine the delivery mechanism more closely.

And I’ll own my part in that - the articles being posted contained a lot of bad science that stood to be corrected. The fact that the mechanism for delivery was a tiny mouth & nose mask that didn’t dilute or remove the CO2 wasn’t explained - probably because of the clear lack of understanding of how Nitrogen asphyxiation works.

Like, I might argue cottage cheese is safe and humane to feed someone, but when you fire a tub of it out of a cannon into someone’s face, I will concede there are ways to do it inhumanely if you are sufficiently stupid or determined, but that shouldn’t detract from the argument.

Nitrogen asphyxiation in and of itself is a humane way to go and should be preserved as an option while capital punishment remains. However, it must be performed correctly.