Alabama has executed a man by nitrogen gas for helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a drug debt. Anthony Boyd was pronounced dead Thursday evening at William C.
Exit International uses nitrogen in its Sarco pods for the same reason - it’s intended to be a low-distress method. The sense of suffocation comes from a buildup of carbon dioxide, not from a lack of oxygen. I’m opposed to the death penalty too, but let’s at least keep the physiology straight.
You’re absolutely right and I didn’t make it clear. The reason the bag works is because you exhale before putting it on. The mask likely doesn’t filter the CO2, so the same breath is essentially trapped.
Exit International uses nitrogen in its Sarco pods for the same reason - it’s intended to be a low-distress method. The sense of suffocation comes from a buildup of carbon dioxide, not from a lack of oxygen. I’m opposed to the death penalty too, but let’s at least keep the physiology straight.
You’re absolutely right and I didn’t make it clear. The reason the bag works is because you exhale before putting it on. The mask likely doesn’t filter the CO2, so the same breath is essentially trapped.
Among the multitude of others reasons I oppose the death penalty, it seems that the state is too fucking incompetent.