Comment on Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith executed with nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of capital punishment | CNN

• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just find the whole debate strange. Nitrogen gas should he fairly painless. Shooting someone is fairly painless as well. Most methods are more psychological painful than physically painful.

  I just think the debate should be why are we executing people especially when most the time it’s 30 years later.

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  • thepreciousboar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reportedly, he appeared to have suffered, and nitrogen ipoxia can be painless but can also be fairly painful in some cases

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t care if they “suffer”. They are being killed. To me that’s the silliness of it. We want it to look peaceful when we are killing someone.

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      • thepreciousboar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The whole idea of capital punishment is “as a society we said that killing people is wrong, but some people are tol dangerous and they must be killed”, but at that point you want to do it without any unnecessary suffering, onlt for the good of society. So you either say that capital punishment should bw abolished, or it must be done without suffering. Death penalty with pain means you are the same as the people you are trying to kill because too dangerous

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