“Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total.”

Pretty compassionate way to kill a person.

Once again, the Law in the south is brutal.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    115
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    11 months ago

    There are many accounts of workers accidentally entering confined spaces that have been purged with nitrogen and they were all unconscious in seconds. (OSHA records). If it took the prison 22 MINUTES to execute this guy, then they totally botched that execution.

    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      38
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      11 months ago

      The gas mixture clearly had oxygen still in it. If he’s gasping for air for 22 minutes, he was still receiving low amounts of O2.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      11 months ago

      Yeah I think when an airplane depressurizes at high altitude it’s something like 5 minutes and people are unconscious. And people just act like drunken idiots after one minute.

      Remember in the event of depressurization, put your own mask on before helping others. Because you’re likely to be a just complete idiot that’s just getting in the way if your brain isn’t properly oxygenated.

      But anyway… yeah these guys fucked up. A big problem with executions that people don’t talk about is that there isn’t a lot of overlap on the Venn diagram of people that are competent enough to perform an execution vs. the people who are willing to perform an execution.

    • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      11 months ago

      Not defending what they did, but he was probably unconscious. His body was fighting for its life.

      • Zink@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        11 months ago

        Fun fact for friendly posters: companies that make gas detectors use lots of nitrogen because it’s a great “zero” gas. That is, 100% dry nitrogen equates to “nothing there” on sensors for all kinds of gases.

        Including oxygen sensors! Did you know in air they measure 20.8% and in nitrogen they measure zero point zero?