One of the most important problems confronting American civilization currently—one not getting the attention it should locally, nationally, and internationally—is nitrogen hypoxia.

Nitrogen hypoxia is an abominable method of execution where the condemned are forced to inhale pure nitrogen gas via a bespoke mask affixed by sadistic executioners. Only two states, Louisiana and Alabama, have experimented with this method of execution thus far.

Why has Louisiana and Alabama’s gassing of human beings to death caused such little outrage despite mountainous evidence the men tortured this way—gasping, writhing, choking, and convulsing—cruelly and unusually suffered for several minutes before eventually expiring?

One reason is unlike with other plainly barbaric ways of killing—say, for example, burning at the stake, the guillotine, “drawing and quartering,” crucifixion, and so forth— advocates against nitrogen-gassing and death penalty abolitionists generally have been unable to persuade the public, lawmakers, and judges (including enough members of our Supreme Court) that this method of execution is, in a word, disgusting.

Many arguments have been made showing the death penalty itself, by any means, is disgusting, and those arguments should undoubtedly continue. But there is an opportunity, one getting smaller with each passing nitrogen-gassing execution in this country, to paint a picture of nitrogen-gassings as........

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