RE: Oklahoma governor signs bill allowing nitrogen gas executions
April 17, 2015 at 10:29 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2015 at 10:32 pm by Pyrrho.)
(April 17, 2015 at 9:51 pm)noctalla Wrote: What evidence do we have that execution by nitrogen gas is painless?
I had the same question, but a simple search seems to indicate that it would be painless in humans:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation
(April 17, 2015 at 9:51 pm)noctalla Wrote: I have long thought that administering a general anesthetic prior to whatever was one's preferred method of dispatching the condemned, could be a humane way to perform executions. I say this as someone who has been put under with a general anesthetic twice. The only way to describe it was that it was total experiential void. ...
I have thought that, too. General anesthetic and madame guillotine would be an effective and painless combination, if used properly.
However, I do not approve of the death penalty. Too many wrongful convictions have occurred, and so it would mean killing innocent people.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
