Alabama’s Nitrogen Gas Execution Will Be Cruel and Unusual Punishment - eviltoast
  • derf82@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    What ridiculous reasoning! They are required to participate … by breathing normally? Year somehow participating by your heart beating is ok?

    They are against it because they don’t want to set a precedent allowing it. Death penalty opponents have come as close as they ever have at abolishing it by lobbying drug makers to stop providing standard drugs. Nitrogen gas, however, is cheap and easy to obtain. Right now the only argument against it is that it’s “experimental” (despite plenty of accidental deaths providing ample data), but once successfully used, that argument is gone.

    • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Also, nitrogen is not poisonous. You asphixiate in about the same amount of time regardles of whether you breath, so participation 100% not required. It is just more comfortable to participate.