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Three top nitrogen gas manufacturers in US bar products from use in executions (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Move follows Alabama’s recent killing of death row inmate Kenneth Smith using previously untested method

Three of the largest manufacturers of medical-grade nitrogen gas in the US have barred their products from being used in executions, following Alabama’s recent killing of the death row inmate Kenneth Smith using a previously untested method known as nitrogen hypoxia.

The three companies have confirmed to the Guardian that they have put in place mechanisms that will prevent their nitrogen cylinders falling into the hands of departments of correction in death penalty states. The move by the trio marks the first signs of corporate action to stop medical nitrogen, which is designed to preserve life, being used for the exact opposite – killing people.

The green shoots of a corporate blockade for nitrogen echoes the almost total boycott that is now in place for medical drugs used in lethal injections. That boycott has made it so difficult for death penalty states to procure drugs such as pentobarbital and midazolam that a growing number are turning to nitrogen as an alternative killing technique.

Now, nitrogen producers are engaging in their own efforts to prevent the abuse of their products. The march has been led by Airgas, which is owned by the French multinational Air Liquide.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I guess both barbarism and light are subjective, but I think I understand your argument.

That being said, there are so many things more barbaric than executing criminals going on in our societies that focusing on this is like fixing a burst water pipe on the sinking Titanic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“Other things are bad so we should fix nothing” is bad reasoning. If we all agree that something is bad and can be fixed by proper legislation, then it should be done. The price of tea in China has no bearing on whether this specific problem should or shouldn’t be fixed.

If you have other things you want to focus on, feel free to advocate for those in the proper channels.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

An empty swimming pool is bad. A burning house is bad. Filling your pool with limited water supply before putting out the fire is also bad.

There is so much focus to go around for politics.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In this analogy, what is the “water?” Legislators’ time? Because that time is consumed much more by political infighting than any specific topic for legislation.

You realize right now is that your argument is essentially that we should keep killing prisoners because not killing them would take time away from “other things,” things so pressing they can only be spoken about in the most vague of notions?

“Yeah, I totally want to go to your wedding bro, but I’ve got sooooo much stuff going on, just like… you know, soooo much and all and yeah, totally wish I could bro.”

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_as_bad_as

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I am thinking more in terms of public and activist focus. Hey, if you don't like killing people, how about not sending weapons to bomb 10s of thousands of actually innocent civilians in Gaza and spread famine that could kill many more as opposed to handful of convicted murderers.

But if you can solve political infighting and get politicians to focus on solving all these issues, that would be even better. I just don't see how that would be possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am opposed to those things as well, so we agree on that point. Maybe the legislators can sponsor a “stop killing people” bill that includes provisions for both not bombing Gaza and also not executing prisoners? Sounds like a win-win to me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The government not getting to misuse the death penalty and not bombing civilians? Sounds like a win-win to me too. Almost too good to be possible in a hyperpolarized two party system.