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Isn't 22 minutes of struggle a bit cruel and inhumane in your eyes? Ask a friend to tie you down on a negative prone position, looking forward, then to drape a wet towel around your face and slowly drop water on it for about 22 minutes, let me know how comfortable that feels.

Serious question: Does "something you literally wouldn't realize is happening" apply even if you're told about it in advance?

I mean… I fell asleep last night without realising it even though I knew it was going to happen. Is inert-gax asphyxia like that? If it's supposed to be like that: Why did the man struggle?

It sounds like somebody telling you, "you're going to die as soon as you fall asleep." Painless? Maybe, but you just might find me a wee bit squirmy.

If it's supposed to be like that: Why did the man struggle?

Call it a wild hunch, but my guess is he was struggling because some people were trying to kill him.

That would be my hunch too. Hunches are cheap. GP seemed to have a little more than just hunches.

tjpnz called it "cruel and unusual punishment." Nitrogen asphyxia is unusual, but the fact is that it's not inherently cruel except in a purely-psychological sense, which would be true of any execution method.

Those who claim it is painful are either mistaken or actively lying. We know that because it occasionally happens in industrial accidents, and survivors have consistently described the experience as painless. So it doesn't meet the standard for cruel and unusual punishment as far as the legal system is concerned.

That has nothing to do with whether it's just. No form of capital punishment based on the blatantly-subjective standard of "guilt beyond reasonable doubt" can be just, but that's not what's being discussed here.

> It's something you literally wouldn't realize is happening until

they wheel you in on the gurney and put the mask on your face.

You’re deeply evil.

Muhahahaha

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