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erronis

(22,660 posts)
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 11:33 AM Mar 2025

Louisiana to use nitrogen execution method it bans for cats and dogs -- The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/louisiana-jessie-hoffman-nitrogen-gas-execution

State plans to carry out first judicial killing in 15 years on Tuesday using technique critics call inhumane



Louisiana is preparing to carry out its first execution in 15 years using a gassing method that is banned under the state’s own laws for euthanizing cats and dogs.

Barring a last-minute intervention by the US supreme court, Jessie Hoffman, 46, is scheduled to die by nitrogen gas on Tuesday at Louisiana state penitentiary, commonly known as Angola prison. He was sentenced to death for the 1996 rape and murder of an advertising executive, Mary Elliott.

Should the execution go ahead, Louisiana would become only the second state to use nitrogen gas as a means of killing people. Lawyers for the condemned man have decried the pending procedure as cruel and unusual punishment.

They point to the four nitrogen executions that have been carried out in recent months in Alabama, in which all four prisoners displayed signs of distress on the gurney. They included Kenneth Smith, who eyewitnesses said shook violently, writhed and convulsed as he was forced to breathe pure nitrogen through a mask.

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SheltieLover

(76,806 posts)
1. I think I will subscribe to the Guardian.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 11:49 AM
Mar 2025

It's not like we can get real news about the US in the US.

TY for sharing!

hlthe2b

(112,812 posts)
3. Yes. Educate everyone you can that their funding is from a private foundation and donations--NOT susceptible
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:35 PM
Mar 2025

to takeover by a Jeff Bezos or Musk--at least at this time (and they pledge that it won't be)

So, definitely subscribe and donate.

The Atlantic is another good one...

hlthe2b

(112,812 posts)
5. Yup... wikipedia is overtly fighting Musk. So, they are definitely deserving of support.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:41 PM
Mar 2025

Oopsie Daisy

(6,670 posts)
6. Yes, the Guardian gets a monthly contribution from me.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:44 PM
Mar 2025

It's a real eye-opener to read accurate, truthful, and blunt news stories about the US (and the world) from reporters and organizations that are NOT in the US.

hlthe2b

(112,812 posts)
2. This is NOT laughing gas--a common misunderstanding.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:33 PM
Mar 2025

This is inert Nitrogen sans any oxygen whatsoever resulting in asphyxiation. It is unbelievably cruel.

For those who are confused, so-called "laughing gas" is nitrogen gas missed WITH oxygen (i.e., nitrous oxide) and does not deprive of oxygen, creating short-term anesthesia (and euphoria). It can be abused so it is used far less in medicine/surgery today. But, it is NOT the form used in these executions--at all.

beaglelover

(4,428 posts)
7. Why don't they just use propofol? As I understand it, if the dosage of propofol is high enough, you stop breathing.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 12:46 PM
Mar 2025

So, when they use it for anethesia, they have to put a breathing tube down your throat and breath for you during surgery. So why not use propofol to execute someone?

erronis

(22,660 posts)
10. Because it doesn't inflict pain. That's the point.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 03:38 PM
Mar 2025

But you probably already understand it.

Look at Stevie Miller's poltergeist - Martin Bormann - and you'll understand.
https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/stephen-miller

Stephen Miller: Trumputin's Martin Bormann?


Miller, who looks like a 50-year-old man trapped in a 31-year-old body, is a severely balding, hooded-lidded, gangly man who reminded me of Adolf Hitler's young hitman, Martin Bormann.

Bormann served a year in prison in the early 1920s for being an accomplice in a murder to a man who later was the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. He joined the Nazi Party in 1927 and rose rapidly in the party, becoming chief of staff to the Deputy Fuhrer, Rudolf Hess, in 1933, at age 33. He became a member of Hitler's inner circle (much as Miller has become to Trumputin), and accompanied him everywhere (similar to Miller), and became Hitler's "personal secretary" in 1935. That year, he became the head of the renovations to Hitler's property at Obersalzberg, the Berghof, and built the Eagle's Nest, a tea house high above the Berghof (which I have visited), as a gift to Hitler on his 50th birthday in 1939.


Stephen Miller
Miller grew up in a liberal Jewish family in Santa Monica. His mother's family immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1900s, as did Trumputin's, but from Belarus and not Germany. He became a conservative after reading a book by NRA head Wayne LaPierre while at Santa Monica High School, where he was known for antagonizing his fellow students by making controversial statements such as telling Latino students to speak only English. At age 16, he wrote a letter to the editor of the old Santa Monica Outlook stating that "Osama Bin Laden would feel very welcome at Santa Monica High School". He also was filmed getting booed offstage during student government campaign speech, wearing a cocky grin, for stating that students should not have to clean up after themselves, since janitors are paid to do this work.

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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/stephen-miller-hatemonger-biography/



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