From "Lengthy Execution by Nitrogen Gas in Alabama Renews Concerns Over Method/Anthony Boyd was the eighth person executed by nitrogen gas since Alabama began using the method last year. His execution came over the strenuous objection of three liberal Supreme Court justices" (NYT)
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"Mr. Boyd had chosen the nitrogen method over lethal injection in 2018, when prisoners were given a month to choose. But..."
"... he later challenged its use, arguing earlier this year in court that the method was cruel and that the state’s protocol was inadequate.... Lee Hedgepeth, a journalist in Alabama who witnessed the execution, said he counted Mr. Boyd gasp for air more than 225 times before he was pronounced dead.... [Dissenting in the Supreme Court case], Justice Sotomayor urged people to open the stopwatch app on their phone and run it until it reached four minutes. 'Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating,' she wrote. 'You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping your lungs with nitrogen gas.'"
From "Lengthy Execution by Nitrogen Gas in Alabama Renews Concerns Over Method/Anthony Boyd was the eighth person executed by nitrogen gas since Alabama began using the method last year. His execution came over the strenuous objection of three liberal Supreme Court justices" (NYT)
Boyd, in his last words, insisted that he was innocent. The victim died "bound and taped to a park bench... doused... in gasoline and lit... on fire."
From "Lengthy Execution by Nitrogen Gas in Alabama Renews Concerns Over Method/Anthony Boyd was the eighth person executed by nitrogen gas since Alabama began using the method last year. His execution came over the strenuous objection of three liberal Supreme Court justices" (NYT)
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Now, to my dismay, I want to wade into what method(s) MAID authorizes.
A lot of my friends were zoomies (sorry, Airmen) who went through low-oxygen training in a pressure chamber. They describe it as a legal high. Is the prison doing it wrong? Or is the gasping an autonomic response, long after the prisoner has drifted off into the land of the Lotophagoi? CC, JSM
There just seems to be no perfect method of state execution.
It reminds me of Dorothy Parkers short poem "Resume'".
Sooo sad. Put a fucking bullet through his (their) brain stem. Done and over. All this legalistic bullshit from judges is nonsense that they've inflicted on society to placate some notion about "cruel and unusual punishments'' in order to ultimately end the death penalty as a practical legal option, and nothing more. Pass the budget and get a grip on these judges please.
A firing squad will save the "victim" from undue suffering and get the unpleasant job done instantly. There will be litigation, regardless of the final disposition of the sentence, for the state cannot serve a life sentence for its crimes.
Disposing justice creates more opportunity than litigators and judges can resist. Busy minds are happy minds!
Peace came upon thee
And it leaves thee weak
So sleep, murderous devil
Go to sleep
Thousands upon thousands of people are put under anesthesia every day, in hospitals in every city in the country, and they go under without a single bad effect. Not good enough for murderers, though. How long did it take his victim to die, and how peaceful was it?
You either have faith in your justice system, or you don't. But if you don't, be prepared for something much, much worse.
Maybe instead we should make sure the justice system is fair, impartial, and above all, right. Then get on with it.
No relation.
Whats wrong with nitrogen more importamt whats wrong wirh the times
"A firing squad will save the "victim" from undue suffering and get the unpleasant job done instantly." Exactly. So simple.
Over the years, I've witnessed many dogs euthanized, and I've never seen one suffer in any way. Every one just peacefully went to sleep Not even a twitch.
Maybe veterinary medicine is the pinnacle of modern science.
Planned Parenthood (PP) umbrella corporation offers progressive, liberal approved methods of aborting wholly innocent human lives. Their success rate is nearly 100% and some collateral, forward-looking damage. Planned Perphood (PP) could offer the same solutions for convicted murderers. Capitol punishment was/is celebrated by leftists with diverse, Diverse precedents.
Last week we watched a good movie available via Amazon Prime: Last Breath
Face it, it’s just Commies looking for a way to cancel executions. They prefer convicted murders get life so they can kill again. Logic escapes them.
It could be argued that killing is humanity's primary business. There is no excuse for doing it poorly.
I've done some drugs that made me feel so good that I wouldn't care if you were killing me with them. I'd probably push the button for more myself.
n.n makes a good point. Imagine the uproar if we killed convicted murderers with the same gruesome methods we do the unborn. Now imagine if it was in the same numbers.
Seems like a better method would be forcing them to watch a Badgers game.
We need a Manhattan Project level effort to invent a foolproof lie detector. Then make an exception for it in the 5th Amendment.
Why not just have a firing squad?
Foolproof lie detector? The fifth amendment would like a word.
Can anyone explain to me why we abandoned hanging? A simple technology refined over centuries with an infinitesimal failure rate.
Why are we arguing this?
Over the years, I've witnessed many dogs euthanized, and I've never seen one suffer in any way. Every one just peacefully went to sleep Not even a twitch.
Maybe veterinary medicine is the pinnacle of modern science.
The drug used by veterinarians, pentobarbital, used to be used for human executions, but the drug companies that make it stopped selling it for executions because they opposed capital punishment.
The issue that concerns us should not be Planned Perphood (the methods of aborting human life are well established and practiced), but rather the liberal state of our indiscretionary prosecutions and judgments.
I don't buy all this handwringing. Most of us have been "put under" for surgery, colonoscopies, etc. It's painless. Just do that to the criminal, and then choose any number of execution methods.
Thanks for that last sentence. The Atlantic has published a piece called "Tortured to Death in Alabama". It's not about the guy on the park bench.
Just shoot these f8ckers in the head. Why are we trying to pretty this up? The entire point of it is to let criminals know what the finding out part is going to be like if they keep fucking around.
We should televise these, also.
If they need someone to pull the trigger, where do I sign up?
Italic, Begone!
The guy he was with who lit the guy on fire is still on Death Row. This guy was just part of the group that robbed him. He didn't actually pour the gasoline or light/toss the match. I would have mercy and give him life in prison, but then I'm not a killer myself.
Yeah, I don't really see what was wrong with hanging.
bagoh20 said...
Over the years, I've witnessed many dogs euthanized, and I've never seen one suffer in any way. Every one just peacefully went to sleep Not even a twitch. Maybe veterinary medicine is the pinnacle of modern science.
"I'll take a vet over an MD any day."
Jamie said...Now, to my dismay, I want to wade into what method(s) MAID authorizes
That was my immediate thought. Deliberate killing is one of the top causes of death in Canada and several other western countries, yet even after decades of practice, the US still can’t figure out how to kill people cleanly?
[SPOILER ALERT for PROJECT HAIL MARY] Interestingly, in the book "Project Hail Mary" - soon to be a major motion picture - one of the astronauts planned to breath in pure nitrogen as his selected method of committing suicide peacefully at the completion of their one-way mission. (It was either suicide or die slowly of starvation as food ran out, IIRC.) The selection had to be made during mission planning so that the supplies necessary were on-board. Fiction, yes, but author Andy Weir obviously spends a lot of time researching the scientific foundations for his books.
It'll be interesting to see if this is kept in the movie. The selection is actually important to the story.
I recommend the book. If you liked The Martian (book or movie) or science fiction, you'll like Project Hail Mary.
I've come to believe execution should involve an element of horror to rarify its justification. Based on the documentary below, my concern was that execution by hypoxia was too anodyne, and might eventually result in overuse. There should be some factor limiting the justified use of execution, where the punishment must fit the crime in public perception.
Watching the video below, the horror is likely in the anticipation rather than in the experience. Yet, if you believe hypoxia causes prolonged post conscious suffering, combine hypoxia with a post conscious firing squad.
AI Overview
In 2008, former British politician Michael Portillo experienced a nitrogen hypoxia experiment for the BBC documentary Horizon: How to Kill a Human Being. The experiment was part of his investigation into more humane methods of capital punishment.
The experiment
Purpose: Portillo explored alternatives to lethal injection, which some believed caused unnecessary pain. He visited the Royal Netherlands Air Force, which was studying hypoxia from high-altitude flying, to experience the effects of nitrogen inhalation.
Method: Portillo breathed pure nitrogen under controlled, expert medical supervision. In a low-oxygen, high-altitude scenario (simulated at 27,000 feet), he was at the brink of death but was not aware of it due to the lack of oxygen.
Result: He described feeling a sense of euphoria as he gradually lost consciousness, concluding that it could be a peaceful way to die.
The effects of hypoxia at high altitude (2013) An interesting, disturbing and somewhat enlightening clip from a BBC documentary on which are the best methods of execution.
I watched Capote on Delta yesterday flying from Atlanta to Johannesburg. My favorite part is when Dick and Perry get their just rewards. Hoffman was great, sorry we lost him.
FormerLawClerk said..."Just shoot these f8ckers in the head. Why are we trying to pretty this up? The entire point of it is to let criminals know what the finding out part is going to be like if they keep fucking around. We should televise these, also. If they need someone to pull the trigger, where do I sign up?"
My fave is the South Vietnamese guy putting his sidearm up to the VietCong guy and pulling the trigger. No effing around.
Oh yeah, I was going to say the hanging looked just fine to me. My second choice would be a large animal vet. Never seen one of my pets cross the rainbow bridge in distress. I was the one in the most distress.
Ref all the commenters comparing executions to surgical anaesthesia, or even veterinary euthanasia: The difference is that educated, licensed medical professionals perform the latter. Their licensing boards prohibit them from killing people or even advising on it. This may change as human euthanasia becomes legal, but that will take a while.
So your judicial executions are literally carried out by amateurs.
I suppose a state that was really serious about the death penalty could create an 'Executioner License' and require a certain amount of education and supervised experience. You might be able to find some anaesthesiologists willing to toss aside their medical licenses and train the first class. Maybe the criminal-killing states could band together in a consortium for some economy of scale. Trump, Bondi, and Dhillon, as leaders of yet another death-penalty jurisdiction, could spearhead the effort, as both a get-tough-on-crime and respect-the-bad-guy's-civil-rights initiative. CC, JSM
You can tell when the NYT is trying to make the condemned sound sympathetic, referring to him as "Mr. Boyd" rather than the more notorious first/middle/last name formulation, Anthony Todd Boyd.
Crap. My own father went through hypoxia testing several times, as did many of his pilot colleagues. They were all given some trivial task, like sorting playing cards or writing their signature. They were all recorded.
There's zero evidence of pain, distress, or even upset.
The distress being objected to is simply fear of death. Ok, fair, but unavoidable. (Unless we gas them in their sleep without notice, I guess.)
Wince: " former British politician Michael Portillo experienced a nitrogen hypoxia experiment for the BBC "
I highly recommend anything with Portillo. Especially Sunday with Michael Portillo on GB News. Michael in his boating blazer takes you through two hours of politics and culture, including civilized multipartisan discussions, book talks, West End theatre reviews with the flamboyant Stefan Kyriazis, and a closing food-and-drink segment.
It's really too bad Portillo revealed his boarding-school homoerotic explorations about 10 years too early. Had he waited, he'd be Prime Minister, or they might even have taken him by force to make him King! CC, JSM
Now that I think of it, I'm in favor of combining a firing squad with other methods of execution for murderers.
O.J. Simpson, for instance.
"So your judicial executions are literally carried out by amateurs."
In my research career, my lab performed hundreds of large animal anesthesia procedures (primarily pigs). It takes some training, but it ain't rocket science.
The “right to die” people made a “sarcopod” to let people kill themselves and claimed it was veery peaceful. I think it was approved in Switzerland. What are these judges talking about, was the guy holding his breath and supposedly suffering from that?
FormerLawClerk said
Don't care much for the CCP, but a 45 round to the back of the head is pretty efficient
I'm finding this so fucking stupid. Shoot people in the head. They die right away. Or shoot them in the heart, its almost as quick. Rig up a chair, put the murderer in it, have a 45 pointed at the right spot, over the heart or at the back of the head. Fire it electroncially via remote control.
Or have a firing squad, that works too. Or use the Guillitine (sic). BTW, gasping for breath, doesn't mean you are conscious)
Just bring back the classic. Old Sparky. Strap 'em in. Light 'em up.
The executed man had lost conciousness but was still gasping for breathe because the breathing mechanism is automatic. We breathe when we sleep and when we faint.
The phrase "grasps for air" often describes agonal respirations, a desperate, irregular gasping reflex triggered by low oxygen or cardiac arrest. This happens unconsciously as the brain's survival mechanism kicks in, producing labored, snorting, or gurgling sounds. It's not effective breathing but a sign of emergency—start CPR immediately if you see it.
Nothing is stopping them from breathing. The only reason they'd gasp for breath is if they're trying to hold it.
Anyone who's breathed too much helium from a balloon knows you just quietly pass out without oxygen. It's why wheat silos are more dangerous than you think.
Some guy on Youtube made a fake human body complete with fake plastic bones and fake organs. And then showed what happens when a four 30.06 bullets hit the chest. He's trying to duplicate the Utah firing squad. Needless to say, the 4 bullets even if they miss the heart, hit lungs, the spinal cord, etc, and would kill anyone in an extremely fast manner.
Messy case.
https://boltsmag.org/anthony-boyd-alabama-death-penalty/
If they aren't careful somebody's liable to get killed.
I support executing a murderer in the same method the person killed the victim.
A shot in a prone position, a scalpel to the neck, etc. Planned Perphood doesn't require intelligence or training. Abortion of convicted murderers is both a rational choice and an empathetic Choice. There are diverse, Diverse methods to relieve a "burden".
The Three Sisty Uglers fail to understand that for anybody other than a fellow traveler their ideological predictability dilutes any weight one might give to their opinions. For example, it is predictable that they would oppose the death penalty regardless of the meagerness of any provocation.
This story just shows how fucking stupid we have become- we now pretend we can't find a way to execute a person that is painless and without drama. The intellectual dishonesty is mind-blowing.
There is nothing intellectually dishonest about opposing the death penalty- I don't support it either- but the arguments one make against it matter and it completely discredits ones argument to attack it in this manner.
Why don't we just use Carbon Monoxide? It just puts you to sleep, then you dies.
"No relation."
Thank God- I would have missed your comments, Bob, even it turned out you were a convicted murderer.
Yes, your carbon dioxide (\(CO_{2}\)) levels would increase when breathing pure nitrogen (\(N_{2}\)) at sea-level pressure. Although you would continue exhaling \(CO_{2}\), the lack of oxygen (\(O_{2}\)) would quickly lead to asphyxiation. The danger of breathing pure nitrogen is that there is no warning from your body that you are suffocating, making it particularly dangerous. Here is how your body's gas exchange is affected: The breathing reflex is not triggered by low oxygen: Your body's primary signal to breathe more rapidly is the buildup of \(CO_{2}\) in the blood, not the lack of \(O_{2}\).\(CO_{2}\) continues to be produced: Even while breathing pure nitrogen, your body continues to perform cellular respiration, a metabolic process that consumes \(O_{2}\) and produces \(CO_{2}\).Gas exchange is impaired: You would continue to exhale \(CO_{2}\) during each breath. However, because you are not inhaling any \(O_{2}\), the oxygen in your lungs and bloodstream is rapidly depleted. The body uses up its remaining \(O_{2}\) stores, and the resulting gas exchange is inefficient.Asphyxiation without warning: Because the \(CO_{2}\) is still being exhaled (albeit less efficiently), it does not build up to levels that would trigger a panic response. Without the normal signal of high \(CO_{2}\), you would not feel a desperate urge to breathe, and you would simply lose consciousness very quickly as oxygen levels plummet.Rapid loss of consciousness: Due to the complete lack of oxygen supply, unconsciousness can occur within 20 seconds, and death will follow soon after.
John Mosby,
It should be a trivial thing to find a retired anesthesiologist who supports and is willing to serve in the role.
There's some stupid "scientific" article on the internet by physiologists that quote a lot mumbo-jumbo and scientific jargon to show that
" Rather than becoming unconscious within a few breaths and dying within 1 min as stated in the Copeland Report, Smith would have been expected to show signs of severe discomfort and distress with intolerable air hunger for ∼1 min and dying within 5–6 min had he been switched to 100% nitrogen in his mask."
IOW, we have massive numbers of incidents where people lose conciousness immediately from breathing in nitrogen gas and dying, but if we try to kill them with that, it will take 6 minutes!
Talk about intellectually dishonest. No one has ever given a good reason why prisoners aren't just given massive amounts of sleeping pills and then executed.
Its just incredible. I've gone through 2 medical procedures where I was knocked out immediately. i didn't die because they know what dosage to use. Sometimes they don't get the right dosage and people die on the operating table.
But for some reason, when we want to execute people we can't get a too high dosage! I don't believe it - its just dishonest BS.
Call it a felon, socially distanced, and allow the licensed abortionists of Planned Parenthood to resolve the "burden" of civilization.
Boyd rhyme Floyd to breathe
Alabama could have douse and set him on fire
How long did it take his victim to die ? While he was on fire. Completely restrained. While his murderers stood and watched for at least a little while. How uncomfortable was he ?
More and faster killings of death row. DJT - Keep your attention to this matter. Thank you.
It's fair to say that the historical record shows that we have been too cruel in our wish to punish transgressors. Up until fairly recent times, it was customary to torture the transgressor on his way to the execution site. Thoughtful people argued that God would look upon this evil doer's suffering and thus be more inclined to pardon him in the hereafter. There was something of extrajudicial punishment in Marie Anoinette's trip to the guillotine........The guillotine was itself a more merciful and democratic form of execution than either the headsman's axe or the rope. Not every executioner was equally skilled with the axe. Some of them had to hack three or four times to get it right. Hanging, until fairly late in the game, involved death by slow strangulation rather than a broken neck. Aristocrats got the axe and commoners got the rope.......If you argue that some forms of execution are too cruel, can't you also argue that some forms of punishment are too kind. I'm thinking of that Serbian war criminal who was installed in efficiency apartment during his trial. That kind of apartment rents for $2000 plus a month in NYC. Maybe they didn't let him have any premium cable channels, but it seemed an absurdly gentle way of confining a man who was charged with orchestrating 17,000 deaths.
we are constantly told how lethal fentanyl, so why wouldn't that be an efficient and in some cases a poetic form of justice.
I play a little game whenever I'm put under for a medical procedure. I try to stay conscious as long as possible; aka 'I fight it'. I am never successful (no surprise), but the relevant point here is that I never feel any stress. I just "go out".
just for reference, air is made up of 780,800 ppm nitrogen 209,500ppm and other trace gases including 480ppm of CO2
nitrogen and oxygen are almost always expressed as parts per hundred or percent, 78.08% & 20.90%.
For some reason, global whatsit propaganda imho, CO2 is almost always expressed in ppm, almost never in percent. Probably because it would cause people to question the sturm and drang of something that is only 0.04% of the atmosphere.
OT unless we get another chinese flu: One of the problems with face masks, esp k95, is that they force you to rebreathe respired CO2 at the expense of oxygen. With a well fitting k95 you are breathing about 100 times the CO2 you normally get, about 4% vs 0.04%. This is why OSHA has strict regs on how long you can wear a k95 in the workplace without a break.
John Henry
The composition of air is primarily a mixture of gases, with nitrogen being the most abundant component, making up approximately 78.08% of the atmosphere by volume. Oxygen is the second most prevalent gas, constituting about 20.95% of the atmosphere. Argon follows as the third major constituent, accounting for roughly 0.93% of the air.
Fentanyl is a respiratory suppressant. An overdose would leave you gasping.
Sotomayor is simply wrong (and perhaps deliberately lying?). The suffocation reflex is triggered by a buildup of CO2, not by the absence of oxygen. That's why divers on too much nitrogen get high rather than panicking, and why people breathing toxic levels of carbon monoxide quietly die without realizing that they're suffocating.
Why can’t veterinarians do this? They have the know-how, the experience, and the drugs, and no Hippocratic oath. The MD is just there to certify death.
I have no idea what they use in Canada, but in Oregon doctors prescribe secobarbital for MAID.
Don’t do the crime if you can’t hold your breath
she may not be smart enough to tell the difference, or she's just reading the baldus study, the shortcut they thought would lead to Furman 2 electric boogaloo
I should patent my old idea for an exploding hat.
An explosive shaped charge to instantly destroy the brain.
It would certainly happen faster than it could be perceived.
Cleanup would be an issue of course.
"Cleanup would be an issue of course."
Not if you got the shape just right.
What’s with this modern chemical crap? Let’s go waaaay back to Neolithic times and smash their heads with a club. Dead in milliseconds. If it was good enough for Pharaoh Narmer …
Heroin, administered by another death row inmate.
Reward killer with a pack of Kools.
Let vegetarians' do it. Starve 'em to death. Quick death is to easy.
In my opinion dying while being burned alive is the worst possible way to die.
"What’s with this modern chemical crap?"
I think the reason bullets or other violent methods aren't used is because it's uncomfortable for people to watch, and it's messy. They are looking for a clean, sanitized method of killing, where someone falls unconscious and doesn't wake up. That shouldn't be a problem, but as was pointed out, medical doctors aren't allowed to participate.
Nitrogen has killed a lot of people in accidents. The first time I heard of it was in 1981 during preparations for the first Shuttle launch. Five workers entered the Columbia engine compartment after a dress rehearsal. The compartment was filled with nitrogen. They all passed out immediately and at least one of them died.
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/03/19/A-space-shuttle-technician-was-killed-and-another-reported/9857353826000/
Ballad of a Dead Man
You’re strapped to the gurney with the tubes in your arm
You see somebody smiling and saying, "it’ll work like a charm”.
They try so hard but you don't buy the farm
You twitch and moan like dat sumbitch St. Floyd
Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is
Do you, Mr. Boyd?
You raise up your head and ask, "what the fuck is goin’ on?"
And somebody points to you and says, "he ain’t gone!"
And you say, "gone where?" and somebody else says, "Well… straight to Hell"
And you say, "Oh my God, just send me into the Void"
But something is happening and you don't know what it is
Do you, Mr. Boyd?
Can anyone explain to me why we abandoned hanging?
Speaking strictly from a Washington state perspective (one of the last states to use hanging), there was a complete and total piece of shit named Mitchell Rupe. Well, Rupe ate himself into such a much bigger piece of shit, there was the possibility hanging him would result in his head popping off ... thus cruel and unusual punishment. A judge agreed.
Then - if I recall - an inmate on death row was given the choice of hanging or lethal injection. Well, that was too mean as well since it would be a very bad thing for a murderous thug being forced to choose his method of execution. So, out that went.
Fortunately, Jay Inslee then made himself King, unilaterally ended all state-sanctioned executions and now we're all living happily ever after by providing the worst of the worst free room and board for the rest of their lives.
The end.
Nathan Hale requesting his execution be by firing squad because of his commission as an officer in the Revolutionary Army. It was refused, and he was hung, because he was convicted of spying, and spies were hanged. As are traitors- Benedict Arnold would have suffered the same fate had he not escaped to the British lines.
Even in the olden days some deaths were recognized as being better then others.
As far as nitrogen deaths go- all my reading on them indicate it's quick and virtually painless. Enclosed space training- which I've been through MANY times- points this out. You're unconscious before you know what's happening. It's happened more then once in chain lockers. The anchor chains gets stowed, the watertight doors dogged shut. Months later someone enters and boom! they fall down. What happened? All the oxygen went away- becoming rust on the iron anchor chain. The nitrogen and argon and other trace gasses are left behind. And they don't support life. Opening the door doesn't cause an inrush of life supporting oxygen. Takes a while for natural mixing to occur.
I once helped with research into the possible cause of death of a welder working in the bilge of a ship. He died from lack of fresh air - the red hot metal he cut dropped into the human waste he was standing in, and the hot metal caused urine to release deadly gas. What a way to go.
And if you want an instantaneous method of execution with minimal duration of any pain to the subject, lay them on a concrete floor and drop a 500 pound steel cube onto their heads from about 3 feet high. Other than having to hose off the cube and the concrete floor after executions, that would be about as fast and painless a death as one can develop. I, for one, blame my knowledge of this on forced viewing of industrial safety training videos showing actual human deaths by lotsa different methods. Crushing the head is instant and irrevocable and failsafe.
In real life people who die accidentally from nitrogen hypoxia are not aware they are breathing a higher than normal % of nitrogen. Which is why it’s so deadly.
Small amounts of liquid nitrogen spilled in confined spaces (small laboratories for example) quickly evaporates and displaces all available oxygen. There is no warning pain that would alert you to leave.
“Crushing the head is instant and irrevocable and failsafe.”
As I recall, the Kids in the Hall perfected this sort of execution. They simply looked at the offender from a distance, spied their head between thumb and forefinger and closed their fingers, crushing the offender’s head between them, while vocally asserting said head crush.
As far as nitrogen deaths go- all my reading on them indicate it's quick and virtually painless.
In the semiconductor industry the chambers on the production tools are filled with nitrogen when not actively running. I have friend who didn't properly vent a chamber once before he stuck his head inside to work on it. The next thing he remembered was that he was waking up lying on the floor with ERT working to resuscitate him. That's how quick and painless its is to suffocate on nitrogen.
Wince said...
"I've come to believe execution should involve an element of horror to rarify its justification."
There must be some way we can incorporate a trebuchet.
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