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I'm definitely against the death penalty but if they're gonna do it anyway this seems like one of the better options
theres actually a thing called nitrogen narcosis. while i still find states that use the death penalty abhorrent, its one of the nicer ways to go. while breathing a pure oxygen-defficient gas you also dont have a feeling that you are suffocating since you can breathe off carbon dioxide just fine. thats why exit bags are a thing in the first place
You can't breathe carbon dioxide like you can breathe oxygen. Nitrogen works well because it's soluble in the body and will replace oxygen, meaning aside from the mental effects, you don't notice it.
CO2 doesn't work the same, though. It won't replace oxygen and will produce a feeling of suffocation.
That's what he's saying. You can exhale the CO2 and breathe in the nitrogen.
CO2 is what causes the burning sensation in the lungs when you hold your breath too long.
Not entirely true. CO2 won't reabsorb but the inability to get rid of what's already there will cause it to build up. It's the presence of excess CO2 that causes the body's suffocation response. This is why people sleep right through being suffocated by CO and why they theorize that nitrogen will have the same response
for diving it is quite different though.
Nitrogen high starts (with normal pressurized air) at around 40m depths which means 5bar pressure or roughly 4bar partial pressure for the nitrogen. It then starts getting into your synapses partly blocking them.
even with 100% pure nitrogen at normal pressure you just get 1bar. So you wont get high from it.
Content warning >!linking to a method of suicide!<
Not going out on a morphine high?
Because the cretins that believe in the death penalty, and they are cretins if they believe in the death penalty, want the process to be as horrific as it can be while not shattering the illusion (for them) that it isn't barbaric. They don't want it to be quick and they definitely don't want it to be painless.
AFAIK the execution protocols that use phenobarbitol also use other chemicals to actually cause fatality, which are reportedly very nasty to experience. They also use butt plugs. This is to reduce discomfort for the witnesses. As I said, the illusion of a civilised procedure is important for them.
https://youtu.be/eirR4FHY2YY?si=EUtz57QxdB_QouXa
Jacob Geller is one of my favorite YouTubers, and he did a really insightful video about how the purpose of the death penalty has changed. It used to be pretty clearly about showing the public that if they fuck up they'll be snatched up and killed horrifically. He supports this with both the innumerable variations people have come up with for the fairly simple task of killing someone else, and how both the execution itself and the body of the condemned were prominent in the public eye (think gibbets and things like that). He argues that now the death penalty is in this weird sort of limbo where it's considered distasteful to make a gleeful spectacle of it but that proponents still think that the specter of being snatched up by the state and killed is important for maintaining a peaceful society so you have all these half measures and stutter steps that are ostensibly designed to be humane for the prisoner but are really there for the comfort and moral superiority of the audience. As an example he talks about the paralytic agent in the lethal injection cocktail that does nothing to relieve pain but prevents the condemned from visibly reacting to that pain. Knowingly or unknowingly, the death penalty is walking this weird line where everyone involved is allowed to pretend that they don't want to do it but that they're bound just as much as the condemned, there are still artifacts of the performative death penalty from days of yore left over in our processes and procedures for killing a condemned person but that proponents have recently made it soft, comfortable and hidden precisely because they recognize that continuing in the old ways will end with the abolition of the death penalty. We've changed as a society from "let's pop on down to the town square after dinner to watch the hanging" to "let's get this nasty business over with behind closed doors so as not to make people uncomfortable".
Reminds me of The Green Mile, when Percy "forgets" to wet the sponge...
Biggest reason is probably that it will be a lot easier to administer. Injection when you can't used a medical profession is kind of a pain for everyone involved.