Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates - eviltoast

“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.

  • RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    You are not being “suffocated” in the sense that you aren’t allowed to breathe. I suggest you do some looking around and check out events where people have entered spaces that can have no/limited oxygen such as mines or anchor chain lockers on ships. They often simply drop unconscious and are dead fairly quickly. The victim isn’t re-breathing CO2, which is what gives us that panicked lack of air feeling, or someone holding something over your face making it difficult to breathe.

    If you’ve ever had a medical procedure that puts you under, I can assure you there’s nothing remembered to be aware of.

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      9 months ago

      Just like with anesthesia, all of the examples of people losing consciousness peacefully were either doing it voluntarily or unknowingly.