Tonight, Alabama Is Likely To Use Nitrogen To Suffocate An Admitted, And Convicted Murderer To Death. That's... Barbarian.

Justice Thomas' order removing the last barrier to this cruel form of execution is. . . here. We detailed the prior efforts of Alabama officials to find a vein, to inject this very same elderly inmate with poisons. This is the "solution" to that "problem" -- according to Alabama. Damn.

To be certain, I understand the Code of Hammurabi-style theater -- at play here.

It just strikes me as beneath. . . a society of ordered liberty.

So, we renew our opposition to the death penalty in all cases -- and particularly here, where animal models (mice and rats) suggest that the inmate will struggle violently for several minutes, when he can no longer get oxygen, as his lungs slowly, cruelly, fill with the tissue killing nitrogen gas. [If he holds his breath long enough, this could take 20 to 30 minutes before he fully suffocates, struggling the whole while. But that may well be the intention of Alabama.]

All this leads to, in Hammurabi's Code -- is a land of the. . . blind -- "as eyes -- for eyes. . . do not restore sight to the dead". Out.

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