Nine months after Kenneth Smithās botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen
Nine months after Kenneth Smithās botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen
Because nitrogen is already the dominant gas in breathable air. Because it is plentiful and readily available. Because lungs donāt detect it as anything different than regular air. It has no side effects and no toxicity. It isnāt the nitrogen that kills, itās the lack of oxygen. What humans detect when suffocating is excess carbon dioxide, so as long as thatāa removed from the nitrogen enviroment, people will just blissfully slip into unconsciousness and then experience brain death from oxygen deprivation - while in a euphoric state the entire time it happens.
The article title is sensationalist clickbait at best, and outright disinformation at worst.
Idk I looked it up (the claim that vets donāt use it) and what I read was that it can cause feelings of suffocation. The vet claim here was a little challenging for since I doubt that pets would like a mask on their face regardless of what is coming out of it.
That is contrary to everything I have found (including veterinary use for euthanasia).
Youāre quite right about that I donāt know what I was looking at before.