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Alabama completes first execution by nitrogen asphyxiation
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All our technological advances as a society and this is the best we can do?
Everyone who would actually know what they are doing in executions (doctors, pharmaceutical companies, veteranarians) have looked at it and said "this is barbaric in concept, no matter how humanely you do it, we will have no part in it". What you are left with is people without the relevent expertise, who do not have a problem with the barbarism, figuring out how to do it.
State sanctioned murder with torture included for free. They did it the conservative Christian way...
I also read that they starved him first so he won't choke on the food if he vomits it out.
No, the best we can do is the guillotine, but people don’t like severed heads.
Or just shooting someone in the head with a high caliber rifle is probably better. Maybe it’s an urban legend, but I’ve heard the brain can survive for a few seconds after being beheaded. Best to just destroy the brain as instantly as possible.
It’s not the best we can do. It’s what sadistic people choose to do.