Nitrogen asphyxiation is probably the gentlest and most comfortable method of executing someone I can think of.
You must not be very imaginative, then. Look to Dignitas, the Swiss nonprofit organization providing physician-assisted suicide. If oxygen deprivation was really the gentlest and most comfortable method of ending a human life, don’t you think that’s what they would do?
Putting aside for a moment the fact that killing someone on purpose against their will is and always will be murder regardless of whether it’s the government doing it, these three states don’t want to use nitrogen because it’s a gentle method. Everyone with actual medical expertise asked about it say it probably isn’t.
They want to use nitrogen because it’s cheap and because it’s plentiful enough that people of better morals and ethics than themselves can’t keep them from getting it. Those are the actual reasons no matter their pseudoscientific claims backed up by no evidence.
You must not be very imaginative, then. Look to Dignitas, the Swiss nonprofit organization providing physician-assisted suicide. If oxygen deprivation was really the gentlest and most comfortable method of ending a human life, don’t you think that’s what they would do?
Putting aside for a moment the fact that killing someone on purpose against their will is and always will be murder regardless of whether it’s the government doing it, these three states don’t want to use nitrogen because it’s a gentle method. Everyone with actual medical expertise asked about it say it probably isn’t.
They want to use nitrogen because it’s cheap and because it’s plentiful enough that people of better morals and ethics than themselves can’t keep them from getting it. Those are the actual reasons no matter their pseudoscientific claims backed up by no evidence.