• Landmammals@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I did read the article. He was holding his breath and shaking around.

    Death by nitrogen hypoxia isn’t something we invented for executions. I don’t know why news articles are pretending that it’s this brand new untested method of killing people.

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      8 months ago

      I wonder if the shaking around was an attempt to break the mask’s seal. Maybe this method could be improved by using one of those assisted suicide nitrogen pods.

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      8 months ago

      He was holding his breath and shaking around.

      Which kind of shows it isn’t all that humane, doesn’t it? He was desperately trying to cling to life.