From: davidc@wa-wd.com
On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 18:25:20 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
wrote:
>David Carson wrote:
>>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 03:57:12 -0000 (UTC), Mark Shaw :
>
>>>If it were up to me, I'd house the condemned persons in special
>>>airtight cells [1] with normal air pumped in until their death
>>>date, and then switch the supply to pure N2 at the appropriate time
>>>- along with the ceremony of Last Meal, Last Words, Visitation By
>>>Clergy, Family, and Victims' Family, etc.
>
>>>[1] My understanding is that death-row inmates essentially live in
>>>solitary confinement until the sentence is carried out. Maybe this
>>>isn't the case everywhere.
>
>>That is currently the case in Texas, as well as in many other places.
>>There is a big difference architecturally, of course, between "solitary
>>confinement" and "airtight cell," and I don't think the state would go for
>>constructing 200 airtight cells. Most prisoners spend at least eight years
>>on Death Row, some many, many more, and there are some prisoners who
>>everyone knows will never be executed and will die on Death Row of natural
>>causes because no prosecutor will ever file for a death warrant on them.
>>So, it isn't practical to keep all condemned prisoners in airtight cells
>>until their eventual possible execution date.
>
>>Also consider that in Texas, executions are not even performed in the same
>>city where Death Row is--the condemned prisoners are transported there a
>>couple of days ahead of time and kept in a holding cell near the execution
>>chamber.
>
>>Constructing the holding cell and using it in the manner you describe
>>could be realistic, I suppose.
>
>Why are you taking this seriously? It's simply a gas chamber. States
>that executed with cyanide used these for decades.
I was addressing the notion of housing every condemned prisoner in a gas
chamber.
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