▲ 751 ▼ Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates (www.independent.co.uk) submitted 2 years ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/news@lemmy.world 581 comments fedilink hide all child comments “Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total.” Pretty compassionate way to kill a person. Once again, the Law in the south is brutal.
[+] snooggums@kbin.social -7 points 2 years ago (2 children) “Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total.” Even with a portion of that being 'just to make sure' his vital signs had stopped, it was certainly longer than a couple of minutes. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Fosheze@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago Because clearly they fucked something up. He was still getting oxygen somehow. I'm guessing they didn't have the nitrogen flow high enough so he was still getting some oxygen. It could have also just been agonal gasping which can last over an hour even after the person is already dead. It's fairly common for people to see that and say the person is still breathing even though that person has already been dead for a while. It also happens with heart attacks and it frequently leads to ems having to explain to family members why there is no hope of resuscitation even though to them it looks like the person is still "breathing". permalink fedilink source parent [–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago That's the crux of the whole "this was done very, very wrong" thing people have been saying. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Fosheze@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago Because clearly they fucked something up. He was still getting oxygen somehow. I'm guessing they didn't have the nitrogen flow high enough so he was still getting some oxygen. It could have also just been agonal gasping which can last over an hour even after the person is already dead. It's fairly common for people to see that and say the person is still breathing even though that person has already been dead for a while. It also happens with heart attacks and it frequently leads to ems having to explain to family members why there is no hope of resuscitation even though to them it looks like the person is still "breathing". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago That's the crux of the whole "this was done very, very wrong" thing people have been saying. permalink fedilink source parent