Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas, a move that comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office asked the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to set an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller. The state said Miller’s execution would be carried out using nitrogen. Miller, now 59, was convicted of killing three people during a pair of 1999 workplace shootings in suburban Birmingham.
“The State of Alabama is prepared to carry out the execution of Miller’s sentence by means of nitrogen hypoxia,” the attorney general’s office wrote, adding that Miller has been on death row since 2000 and that it is time to carry out his sentence.
Alabama this week:
“All life is sacred in the eyes of God!!!”
“Gas that motherfucker til his eyes bleed!!”
I feel like Alabama has been making some high profile bad decisions lately
I mean, we could, maybe not be killing people, but that failing, if they do it right the victim just euphorically slumbers away into death. It’s not that hard you just give them nitrogen to breathe. How the f*** can they screw this up?
I always thought suicide bags with nitrogen or helium were the way to go. I didn’t read why the last guy had such a miserable death, but I did read it wasn’t pretty.
I feel like they could put someone under some anesthesia and finish the job with the gas. Or even better, don’t kill people, like you said.
Generalized convulsions are a pretty well-established effect of nitrogen toxicity.
“In the few experiments in which nitrogen was breathed for 17–20 sec unconsciousness supervened and was accompanied on most occasions by a generalized convulsion.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation
Known in the scuba diving world as “getting narced” (nitrogen narcosis)
https://www.scuba.com/blog/dealing-nitrogen-narcosis-2/
“In severe cases, divers have been known to experience convulsions, possibly causing loss of consciousness in extreme cases.”
Not-so-sweet home Alabama
They’re trying to sneak in as much cruelty and obscenity as possible before the next generation gets into power and tries making everything fair and compassionate.
Which Southern state is going to be the first one to livestream executions?
as if they didn’t fuck up the first one enough, they’re gonna do it AGAIN?? At this point I think we should follow in the footsteps of the Brazen Bull.
Stories allege after finishing construction on the execution device, Perilaus said to Phalaris: “His screams will come to you through the pipes as the tenderest, most pathetic, most melodious of bellowings.” Perilaus believed he would receive a reward for his invention. Instead, Phalaris, who was disgusted by these words, ordered its horn sound system to be tested by Perilaus himself, tricking him into getting in the bull. When Perilaus entered, he was immediately locked in and the fire was set, so that Phalaris could hear the sound of his screams. Before Perilaus could die, Phalaris opened the door and took him away. After freeing him from the bull, Phalaris is then said to have taken Perilaus to the top of a hill and thrown him off, killing him.
They fucked it up, yes. Should they do the same procedure, no. Should they still use nitrogen executions, one of the least painful ways to die, yes, assuming you support executions at all.
Looks like Alabama is run by non-intelligent life forms. Because one key feature of intelligence is to be able to learn from past mistakes.
Disappointing to see from Alabama.
