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BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 1 year ago

Alabama inmate executed with nitrogen gas was ‘shaking violently’ for 22 minutes, witnesses say

www.theguardian.com

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Alabama inmate executed with nitrogen gas was ‘shaking violently’ for 22 minutes, witnesses say

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BrikoX@lemmy.zipM to Global News@lemmy.zipEnglish · 1 year ago
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State executes Kenneth Smith with untested procedure that lawyers had argued amounted to cruel and unusual punishment

Archived version: https://archive.ph/YdfmT
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240126184006/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/25/alabama-executes-kenneth-smith-nitrogen-gas

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    Because they put a mask on him instead of filling the room with nitrogen.

    Bunch of idiots.

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      AND he held his breath as long as he could to avoid inhaling. Really it should be done in a whole room like you said, and at a random time so as to avoid that stressful “last moment” struggle.

      Preferably we don’t execute people at all, no matter how heinous their crimes.

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          Culling ones that are cancerous to society

          Holy Holocaust, Batman!

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          I think life imprisonment is a perfectly reasonable, if expensive, solution.

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          Not killing certain people just results in more innocent people being killed.

          literally what does this even mean.

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              Keeping them in prison and/or psychiatric treatment would have the same effect.

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              You can’t fathom how giving the state access to lethal means of punishment won’t result in innocent people being killed?

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                  Comparing execution and medical care is hilarious. They are two fundamentally different concepts. You can write your diatribe to try and sound smart all you like, the fact remains that having lethal forms of punishment has, and will continue to, result in deaths of innocent people in the name of ‘justice’.

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      Not idiots, it was very much an informed decision.

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        Yup. Religious people are always fucking trash.

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