Posted on Sep 13, 2022
Alabama could use nitrogen hypoxia for executions in death sentences. What is it?
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Alabama is readying an untried method of execution to carry out its death sentences – nitrogen hypoxia.
The state approved the method in 2018, but it has not yet been used or tested.
The man awaiting a Sep. 22 execution, Alan Eugene Miller, was convicted of killing three men in a workplace shooting in 1999. He said he opted for nitrogen hypoxia instead of lethal injection due to a fear of needles, but corrections officers lost his paperwork.
While the Alabama attorney general's office found no evidence of that, Miller could receive death by nitrogen hypoxia if a judge blocks the use of lethal injection.
Alabama is readying an untried method of execution to carry out its death sentences – nitrogen hypoxia.
The state approved the method in 2018, but it has not yet been used or tested.
The man awaiting a Sep. 22 execution, Alan Eugene Miller, was convicted of killing three men in a workplace shooting in 1999. He said he opted for nitrogen hypoxia instead of lethal injection due to a fear of needles, but corrections officers lost his paperwork.
While the Alabama attorney general's office found no evidence of that, Miller could receive death by nitrogen hypoxia if a judge blocks the use of lethal injection.
Alabama could use nitrogen hypoxia for executions in death sentences. What is it?
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To the best of my knowledge , this has yet to be tried anywhere. In theory the nitrogen would replace the oxygen in your system and lead to a more humane death. Since it is colorless and odorless and non acidic, seems lie a possibility to me.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
SP5 Dennis Loberger My Catholic Upbringing makes Me very Anti-Capital Punishment but as a Diver I'm familiar with Nitrogen Narcosis and If You're going to, the Most Painless Way I Know of.
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Don't care how they carry it out...just quit using my tax dollars to keep convicted and last appeal death row inmates alive...the longer they are there the more agony on the victims families...just end it.
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