The whole "shortage" of lethal injection drugs is silly. A gram of fentanyl will kill anybody, and it's a hell of a nice way to go. To make sure it doesn't fail, have them breathe pure xenon. Like any noble gas, it's a painless way to suffocate (exit bag, anyone?), but there's a bonus with xenon: it's anesthetic, so it's less than painless!

Only downside is the price. It's about $10 per liter. The body absorbs very little of it, however, and it could be recycled. Or we could just use nitrous oxide. It's anesthetic, painless, and cheap.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827448&forum_id=2#42409976)

Using an inert gas would all but eliminate the potential for a botched execution. Inert gases cause suffocation without causing the painful gasping and panic that results from respiration of CO2, and unlike with fentanyl and other surgical anesthetics, suffocation is effective on everybody.

Since inert gas only needs to be paired with something to make the convict comfortable during their last moments, any number of surgical anesthetics could be used if fentanyl were unavailable. And even that's unnecessary if xenon were used, since xenon gas is itself anesthetic.

https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/71/1/115/276002

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827448&forum_id=2#42412288)

7:28

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827448&forum_id=2#42410091)

So ACLU types have been offering up firing squad as alternative, since almost no one besides Utah has historically allowed it. Now states are calling their bluff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827448&forum_id=2#42411994)

I join the opinion of the Court, and write to respond to Justice Breyer’s plea for judicial abolition of the death penalty.

Welcome to Groundhog Day. The scene is familiar: Petitioners, sentenced to die for the crimes they committed (including, in the case of one petitioner since put to death, raping and murdering an 11–month-old baby), come before this Court asking us to nullify their sentences as “cruel and unusual” under the Eighth Amendment. They rely on this provision because it is the only provision they can rely on. They were charged by a sovereign State with murder. They were afforded counsel and tried before a jury of their peers—tried twice, once to determine whether they were guilty and once to determine whether death was the appropriate sentence. They were duly convicted and sentenced. They were granted the right to appeal and to seek postconviction relief, first in state and then in federal court. And now, acknowledging that their convictions are unassailable, they ask us for clemency, as though clemency were ours to give.

The response is also familiar: A vocal minority of the Court, waving over their heads a ream of the most recent abolitionist studies (a superabundant genre) as though they have discovered the lost folios of Shakespeare, insist that now, at long last, the death penalty must be abolished for good. Mind you, not once in the history of the American Republic has this Court ever suggested the death penalty is categorically impermissible. The reason is obvious: It is impossible to hold unconstitutional that which the Constitution explicitly contemplates. The Fifth Amendment provides that “[n]o person shall be held to answer for a capital . . . crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury,” and that no person shall be “deprived of life . . . without due process of law.” Nevertheless, today Justice Breyer takes on the role of the abolitionists in this long-running drama, arguing that the text of the Constitution and two centuries of history must yield to his “20 years of experience on this Court,” and inviting full briefing on the continued permissibility of capital punishment, post, at 2 (dissenting opinion).

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/576/14-7955/#tab-opinion-3428058

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827448&forum_id=2#42413266)

https://youtu.be/9Grqq44cK-o

He's local, I'm sure he can find the time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827448&forum_id=2#42420808)

https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/05/justices-wont-hear-missouri-inmates-request-to-choose-firing-squad-over-lethal-injection/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4827448&forum_id=2#42521763)