Ghoulish pall is cast over America by Alabama's plan to gas humans to death

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Ghoulish pall is cast over America by Alabama's plan to gas humans to death
Nitrogen hypoxia: The good, moral people of Alabama, of which there are many, are losing their fight against those hell-bent on profaning the system.
montgomeryadvertiser.com
8:39 AM · Jun 15, 2021

https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/opinion/2021/06/15/alabamas-plan-gas-humans-death-nitrogen-hypoxia/7700034002/

Instead of working to resolve constant correctional crises around the state — including a steady spate of prison killings, suicides, sexual abuse, and other in-custody violence; overcrowding; smuggled contraband; a perennially poor-performing parole board; and a paucity of rehabilitative programming and alternatives to incarceration — the always beleaguered (and always under federal scrutiny) Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC), together with Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, are advancing Alabamians, and all Americans, down a path of historical shame.

They’re planning to asphyxiate condemned prisoners to death in a gas chamber, or more likely with some dreadful gas mask.

In November 2019, I wrote in the Alabama Political Reporter how AG Marshall’s contract with Tennessee company “FDR Safety” to develop a protocol to gas humans to death with nitrogen hypoxia — an untested and experimental method — is sick and shrouded in secrecy. The Council of Europe’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights referred to my column that year in its year-end “situation report” on the abolition of the death penalty.

Fast-forward to recent news in the Advertiser concerning federal court filings about the near-completion of Alabama’s nitrogen hypoxia protocol. The reporting evidences that the veil of clandestine concealment concerning the development and particulars of Alabama’s nitrogen hypoxia protocol remains ironclad.

*snip*

[underpants]

1. Arizona is considering using Zyklon B

Yes that Zyklon B

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/us/arizona-zyklon-b-gas-chamber.html

[gratuitous]

2. Guillotine? Hanging? Drawing and Quartering? Roasting Alive?

Come on, you blood-thirsty fuckers, it's like you're not even trying. You've got your citizens' blood lust inflamed, and you're just going to gas or suffocate the condemned?

[CrispyQ]

3. Firing squad. Sell raffle tickets to win a chance to execute your fellow citizens. *

* Must provide your own gun.

You were right, they are blood-thirsty fuckers.

[Disaffected]

4. Whatever one thinks of the death penalty,

nitrogen hypoxia is (at least would be) one of the more humane methods of execution. It is petty much fail-safe and causes little or no pain or discomfort.

I would choose that any day over hanging, the electric chair, lethal injection or hydrogen cyanide (which they used to use in some states).