Weird, everything I saw on Lemmy until yesterday was about how humane and painless this method is, without any suffering. Seems that the tone has changed
Isn't it the same way they let sick people kill themselves? I remember seeing a recent story about someone using a new capsule. They get inside it; it fills with nitrogen; and they drift away.
I'm no fan of the death penalty. Just genuinely interested in whether I'm correctly remembering that the best known voluntary method matches the new execution method.
Method is important. The medium is the same (nitrogen) But putting an "oxygen" mask on someone and plumbing it to nitrogen is a different method than putting someone in a chamber that is sealed and the oxygen and exhaled carbon dioxide* are quickly displaced.
*Carbon dioxide is what makes you feel like you're suffocating.
Yeah. Turns out they shouldn't have used an untested execution method. Especially when the judge made a blatantly unconstitutional decision to kill a man anyways. Clearly Alabama has no problem testing on humans.
I'm still here saying that. Alabama fucked up something that should've been dead simple. Sealed mask with a one way valve, hooked directly up to nitrogen. That or an anoxic chamber for the victim. I'm against capital punishment but if it's going to happen, nitrogen is still the way to go.
Smith’s death came after the US Supreme Court denied a final, 11th-hour bid to stay of execution. The ruling received dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor who wrote that the state had selected Smith as a “guinea pig” by using the untested method.
Good that there is extensive evidence on the effectiveness of (brutal) death sentences as means to reduce crime!
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