• Lemmywink@lemmynsfw.com
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    11 months ago

    Goddamn finally, I’ve always wondered why nitrogen was never used for these kinds of things before. Cheap, painless, and effective.

    Not exactly advocating for the death penalty, but if it must exist in this world I’d hope it’d use an effective and painless method

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    11 months ago

    This is easily the most dangerous method possible for everyone involved. Strangely enough our body only reacts to buildups of CO2, it does not react to a lack of oxygen.

    So while in theory it would be painless as an execution method, if anything leaks into the viewing area for the execution there is no visible signs anyone is in danger as oxygen is being displaced thus potentially killing everyone involved.

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      11 months ago

      There’s a whole field of industry for gas detection, whether it be for the presence of toxic or explosive gas, or the absence of healthy breathing air. It’s an easily mitigated problem. If the detector on the wall goes below 20% o2, an alarm sounds, circulation fans turn on, and everyone leaves the room.

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      11 months ago

      It’s well established how to administer this method of death, I don’t see this same safety concern as you do.