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submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

An Alabama inmate would be the test subject for the “experimental” execution method of nitrogen hypoxia, his lawyers argued, as they asked judges to deny the state’s request to carry out his death sentence using the new method.

In a Friday court filing, attorneys for Kenneth Eugene Smith asked the Alabama Supreme Court to reject the state attorney general’s request to set an execution date for Smith using the proposed new execution method. Nitrogen gas is authorized as an execution method in three states but it has never been used to put an inmate to death.

Smith’s attorneys argued the state has disclosed little information about how nitrogen executions would work, releasing only a redacted copy of the proposed protocol.

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[-] snooggums@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago

If done right. You know that people qualified to do it right don't participate in executions, right?

That's why they fuck up giving someone injections on a regular basis.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

How does one fuck up flooding a room with nitrogen gas?

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago
[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

So you see no difference in lethal injection and filling a room with nitrogen? If not, there's no point discussing it with you. But I'll give you a hint! Worst case, there's not enough NO2 to cause death, so the subject gets stoned as balls and they introduce more.

This ain't rocket science.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago

I see no difference in an incompetent person trying something they are not qualified to do and then trying to do another thing they are unqualified to do. I expect them to fail at both.

You also don't appear to understand how the NO2 process works. It isn't that they just need to add more N02, they also need to remove the oxygen AND CO2 at the same time. That is actually fairly complicated and requires knowledge on air movement in a restricted space. If they can't properly dose someone with needles, good luck on them doing it right with airflow.

[-] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This isn't a "gas chamber" type of execution. They're putting a mask on the person with nitrogen gas. Though the state's executioners are so incompetent that they'll probably end up gassing themselves.

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