# Why don't states use nitrogen chambers for the death penalty?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 8, 2022, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-states-use-nitrogen-chambers-for-the-death-penalty/960698 "2022-03-08T20:23:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 9, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-states-use-nitrogen-chambers-for-the-death-penalty/960698/20 "2022-03-09T00:48:49Z")

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> [@Slithy\_Tove](#):
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> Workers die of it every year.

I actually wondered about it as a mean’s of execution when I read the link in post 11 of this thread:

> [@Oxygen = Life?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oxygen-life/959337/12):
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> Not directly related to the OP but of interest, I think, is people dying who go into a chain locker on a ship if they do not wear breathing apparatus (it [has happened](https://www.taproot.com/the-crew-of-viking-islay-failed-to-recognise-the-chain-locker-was-a-potentially-dangerous-enclosedconfined-space-3-die/)). The oxygen in the locker is captured by the metal as it rusts until no oxygen is left. It shows how easily oxygen can be removed if nothing replenishes it.

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