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No, nitrogen doesn't work like that. CO² doesn't build up in your body.
We are already breathing a high nitrogen atmosphere, and as the nitrogen level rises, and the oxygen levels lowers, you keep breathing normally, expelling the CO² in the normal way. It wouldn't accumulate enough in the atmosphere of the chamber to be a threat, any more than in a normal room.
It is not painful, there is no "agony." Every example of death by nitrogen has showed that the person essentially passed out within a few breaths, with no signs of distress. If they were standing when it overtook them, they'd obviously be sprawled in the ground, but those who were seated or lying down, look like they simply fell asleep, which is exactly what happened.
And unlike Cyanide, which is truly scary substance, Nitrogen poses no substantial threat to anyone operating or witnessing the procedure. Even if the equipment were to fail somehow, it is highly unlikely that a nitrogen release would endanger those around it (the exhaust system would handle it quickly), while a cyanide breach could kill everyone in seconds, before emergency measures could be taken.
Refusing to breathe is the instinctive response to being unwillingly hooked up to nitrogen as a means of execution. This causes co2 buildup in the blood and an agonizing death.
There is no humane form of execution.
And you know this how? If you are in a chamber filled with nitrogen, you aren't even going to know it. You will breathe normally, until you fall asleep. Have you ever had anesthesia for anything? Every time I've done it, I've told myself that I will fight it as long as possible, just as a test (I have also lied on every polygraph test I've taken, just for fun, and to prove how worthless polygraphs are). When they tell me to count backwards from 10, I never make it past 8.
If you think that they are going to hold their breathe long enough to exhibit any symptoms of CO² poisoning, you are delusional. It is simply impossible. Go ahead and try it right now. Try to hold your breathe until you are in "agony," as it was put it in a previous post. You will NEVER reach that point. You will involuntarily breathe after 60 seconds or so. People like Navy Seals can hold their breath longer, but that's after a lot of training.
BTW, this is the same reason that it is impossible for your finger to snap off after becoming doused with Liquid Nitrogen, which is -320° F. It is literally the same as sticking your finger in a fire until burns enough to fall off. You couldn't do it, your brain would force you to involuntarily yank it out of the fire. Same with LN. As cold as it is, you would have to immerse your finger for an extended period of time before it would be cold enough to snap off, and nobody could withstand that pain.
You have an issue with Capital Punishment, so you are trying to shoot down any possible method, but your arguments with this method simply don't hold water. Compared to the medieval methods we have used on the past, Nitrogen IS a humane, effective, and efficient method of execution. THAT is what this discussion is about, not the overall morality of Capital Punishment. IF we are going to have Capital Punishment, then we should do it as efficiently, and humanely as possible, and nothing offers that better than Nitrogen.