Either Nitrogen or Helium Asphyxia for the most humane ways.
Something resembling the general idea
Now the reason why I say this is humane, is because the human lungs are kinda stupid, they don’t detect lack of oxygen, but only carbon dioxide.
By making the subject breath helium or nitrogen, we can fool the lungs into thinking it’s breathing oxygen, when in reality, the body is being suffocated. All that would happen to the subject is that they would become tired, fall asleep, become unconscious and eventually die. The subject wouldn’t even notice. This is quite a fast method and is completely painless, thus making it a highly humane execution method.
As for the least humane ways. Well……
A death row inmate in Alabama, Kenneth Eugene Smith, was executed Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, a controversial and untested method that has prompted legal pushback and public scrutiny from critics within the United States and abroad.
The condemned inmate became the first to die this way. Smith was convicted in the 1988 killing of a pastor's wife as part of a murder-for-hire scheme and has been imprisoned for decades in Alabama. He already survived a botched lethal injection in November 2022 — one of four in Alabama since 2018, which was the same year the state authorized the use of nitrogen hypoxia in the death chamber. It is among three states, along with Oklahoma and Mississippi, that technically permit the method as an alternative in the death chamber since lethal injections in recent years have become harder to get.
Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed in Alabama on Jan. 25, 2023, using a new method, nitrogen gas.
Before Thursday, no execution has ever been carried out in the U.S. using the method, and experts have repeatedly warned that nitrogen toxicity may cause the condemned person to suffer unnecessarily while at the same time threatening the health of others in the room.
In a news briefing following the execution, Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Q. Hamm said that the execution began at 7:53 p.m., and Hamm was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. The nitrogen mask was kept on Smith for about five minutes after he flatlined, Hamm said
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