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The state plans to carry out the first U.S. execution via nitrogen hypoxia with Kenneth Smith, who survived an earlier attempt to execute him by lethal injection

Death to America, and death to the South in particular. Scorch that motherfucking earth.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Is nitrogen hypoxia the one that doesn’t trigger the feeling of suffocation? Redditors love that shit because it lets them claim it’s painless and feel good about the prison system murdering people.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

If done well nitrogen hypoxia should be like falling asleep and never waking up. If you fuck it up by somehow not removing CO2 fast enough, it feels like suffocating.

It's probably better then lethal injection, but still really fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The results tell another story, guy convulsed and writhed for over 20 minutes. Fuck.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Am I missing something obvious as to why they don't use firing squads? Is it a matter of "optics" or so whoever's making the lethal* injection juice can sell at a huge markup?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Makes the execution less violent and more "acceptable".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

liberals will commit the most horrific crimes against nature just to avoid the optics of violence.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Yeah, everything that was done to make the death penalty more "humane" has been done to make it more comfortable for the executioners and the public, rather than for the ones being executed.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

it also denies the murdered prisoner a bit of dignity imo, instead of standing, cursing his killers its this medicalized byzantine ritual

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

cursing his killers its this medicalized byzantine ritual

You also can’t taunt their killers and haunt their dreams before they unload their rifles. Lethal injection means they watch you ‘peacefully’ fall asleep

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's a better form of execution than lethal injection but death penalty should be reserved for billionaires and fascists post revolution.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

With billionaires, take away their money and let them pick a working class job. If they're really some big brain business genius they'll rise up the ranks soon enough. If not, they won't. Make it a reality TV show.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Make it a reality TV show.

This would be the best post revolution show! Trap all the billionaires in a Truman Show-like similacrum of late stage capitalism without any of the advantages they were birn with and watch them as they slowly discover they will never become billionaires again

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They followed through - it ain't better at all, it was worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yea, guillotine or firing squad for the billionaires. Not much to go wrong there.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The death penalty is so weird in America. Most young people think we should get rid of it. But old fuckers love it. I have heard on multiple ocasions in the bible belt that 'eye for an eye' is a good system. America is in the dark ages

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I don't see any of those fuckers gouging out their eyes when it causes them to sin (technically different but if they're trying to be "by the book" I want to see the follow through)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm against the death penalty but nitrogen is a really good way to die.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Read about the results, they did it yesterday. I was under the impression that it was a good way to die too... Fucking no!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If I were getting executed I would prefer to just be shot in the head and die like a person. I still don't get why the US has to do all these looney toons ass methods of execution. Is it to strip away any small bit of dignity from the prisoner?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The US has a bizarre fascination with trying to murder people "ethically".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It’s farcical. They could inject prisoners with Nembutal or something and it would be a painless death but instead they use those shitty lethal injection drugs which both don’t always work, lol like in this case, and are known to be incredibly painful

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not tested as an execution method, but we do know what happens to people who die of it. Marginally better version of a horrific act that the state shouldn't be allowed to do in the first place.

Edit: Fucking nope. May as well be the gas chamber with hydrogen cyanide again.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

What could possibly go wrong?

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

? Just don't kill

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Alabama isn't real, it's just a rejected Hollywood script.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

IIRC the only reason we haven't brought back gas chambers w/ inert gas as a method of execution is the bad optics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

They did it, and it was a horror show, but the governor is saying everything went as planned. Turns out they wanted it to be cruel and torturous.