On Jan. 25, the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) plans to execute Kenneth Smith by forcing him to breathe pure nitrogen gas, an untested execution method with profound legal and ethical conseq...
Is he arguing that this is cruel and unusual punishment because they have to continue breathing? Otherwise they will feel the CO2 build-up if they hold their breath. I’m sorry, but if capital punishment has to be a thing, I’ll take Nitrogen poisoning over any current method.
A little? If I’m going out, might as well go out with all the opioids.
Actually, why aren’t opioids used for lethal injections? IV overdose of heroin/fentanyl is well known to cause death, and going out that way wouldn’t be nearly as painful as the current triple drug mix.
I don’t know the actual answer, but here are the excuses that I get when I have asked this question previously.
People have different tolerances and you can’t be sure the dose will kill them
Some people may vomit while dying and may suffocate on the vomit during the event
The people who manufacture legal Fentanyl don’t want to sell it for the death penalty.
These sound like some pretty silly excuses, but I am just a layman. I fail to see why the federal government couldn’t test confiscated Fentanyl until they find something pure and resell it to the states for this purpose.
The government siezes lots of illegal fentanyl. Just put it in the condemned’s cell. Could do the same with heroin. There’d have to be exceptions made to the current law to be able to do this legally, but if the prisoner wants to go out on their own terms, let them.
Is he arguing that this is cruel and unusual punishment because they have to continue breathing? Otherwise they will feel the CO2 build-up if they hold their breath. I’m sorry, but if capital punishment has to be a thing, I’ll take Nitrogen poisoning over any current method.
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A little? If I’m going out, might as well go out with all the opioids.
Actually, why aren’t opioids used for lethal injections? IV overdose of heroin/fentanyl is well known to cause death, and going out that way wouldn’t be nearly as painful as the current triple drug mix.
Just use an ungodly amount of carfentanil.
I don’t know the actual answer, but here are the excuses that I get when I have asked this question previously.
These sound like some pretty silly excuses, but I am just a layman. I fail to see why the federal government couldn’t test confiscated Fentanyl until they find something pure and resell it to the states for this purpose.
The government siezes lots of illegal fentanyl. Just put it in the condemned’s cell. Could do the same with heroin. There’d have to be exceptions made to the current law to be able to do this legally, but if the prisoner wants to go out on their own terms, let them.