Alabama Supreme Court Green Lights Nitrogen
Gas Execution for Convict Who Survived
Lethal Injection

Note that we all breathe 78% nitrogen every day all day. No smell, no taste, invisible. Remove the oxygen and you die, but without any sensation of any difficulty whatsoever. How can I state this with certainty? A coworker accidentally entered a volume which was filled with pure nitrogen to prevent corrosion of a large mechanical device in storage. He passed out, and fortunately he was laying back examining the device, feet outside, with a coworker present outside. When he became unresponsive, he was dragged out, into fresh air and revived. I later asked him what it felt like....he said, "I was just fine, doing my inspection and them 'click', out like a light. No hint it was coming." I have suggested this as a 100% certain and totally painless, CHEAP and also very low risk to the people doing the job, too. Afterwrds, just open a door to the death chamber and turn on a fan.....no toxic fumes to deal with, just make sure the room is well ventilated foir several minutes before entering. There are standard meters for this check already available, for going into confined spaces that may be out of oxygen. Our "need to breath" or "I'm running out of air" sensation is caused by excess CO2 in the blood stream, not by oxygen shortage. Breathing pure nitrogen permits CO2 to be expelled normally, so no excess CO2 build up, and no sensation of "out of air" occurs....just lights out when blood oxygen reaches the critical level. I first suggested this about 1978....but I didn't actually take it up as a crusade or anything. But, it will work, be cheap, safe, effective and painless. It should become the norm. And good riddance of this guy.

Toss in a little rope, a bullet, and a little current at the same time that might help.

If this fails place him between Jerry Nadler and a box of doughnuts.

To be perfectly frank, all methods have become controversial among liberal death penalty opponents. There is a saying, "Some people would complain if you hung them with a brand new rope." If you object to killing people who have killed others, take it up with your state legislature.

“ Executions used to be done through violent means such as firing squad, hanging, or the electric chair.” His victims were unavailable for comment.

Good. Saves a lot oxygen for useful purposes.

Any way you look at it, he's lived 25 years longer than he should have.

He did not survive a Lethal Injection. If the injection did not kill him it wasn't lethal. This guy needs to be done in, but if put him on a cot to die and the idiot doing the injection didn't make it strong enough is it cruel and unusual to try to do him in again.? I am all for his execution, I am just asking a question here.

My Dear Brothers in Alabama, Please allow me to offer my services as an alternative to the planned method of garbage disposal. At my own expense, I will travel to Alabama from Texas and beat this miscreant to death with my lovely, vintage, thirty-six inch, All-American made Louisville Slugger in the style of one Alphonse Capone. I can perform the execution in the prison yard, negating the expense if a dedicated “death chamber”. Clean up can be as simple as a garden hose, or, in a more environmentally friendly approach, buzzards and insects; your choice. As noted above, there will be no charge for this service. Thank you and good day.

First of all, the state of Alabama has wasted way too much money on feeding that guy. Second, if my equine veterinarian could euthanize a thousand pound horse with one injection in a matter of about 3 seconds, why can’t we do the same to heinous criminals? I don’t know what they injected into him that failed but all prisons should just bring in the local vet to take care of the problem.

One of the main reasons I'm here is to learn new things. #1 is always informative. Well done, as usual. In some cases death penalty is proper, although it is always too delayed. President McKinley's assassin went to the chair seven weeks after his crime. I haven't heard it suggested that he was railroaded, or anything like that. He was guilty. And he got to pay. Several decades ago Utah's laws called for condemned murderers to be hanged or shot, both of which work well. Tennessee where I grew up had the Chair. But if an evil person needs to be hanged, the executioner ought to tie a better knot than what looked like the simple slip knot that did in Saddam Hussein. It ripped his neck. No wonder he wanted to be shot. Dang it, he was the president of Iraq! So make the rope nice. Have plenty of loops above the noose (7 to 13). Hang it over his left shoulder before the trap door opens. If you have to hang an evil man, do it right.

Nothing humane or civilized about the killing of his victims, why does he deserve better? Fear of consequences matters.

I am in favor of the death penalty, but make ABSOLUTELY sure that they have the correct perp, as there is no 'undo' on this. I'm with #1 on the method. On the other hand, part of me says -and again be ABSOLUTELY SURE that they have the murderer- then the murderer should die in the same way that they killed their victim, whether it was shooting them, stabbing them, beating them to death, running them over with a car, or whatever. Remember the Thug who doused a young lady with Gasoline and then set her on fire? I say the SAME should be done to him! link: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/10/11/jessica-chambers-mississippi-murder-trial/753723001/

a .45 bullet is about $.45.....

Not reading ANYTHING about this case. Legally wasn't the death penalty carried out? Meaning the required punishment for the crime was done?. If so is anything relative to the case after the punishment valid? Just because he survived the execution, the punishment WAS carried out per the law. Legally wouldn't you say the individual has now served his punishment and should go free as any convict who has served his prescribe punishment in the legal system.