“Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total.”

Pretty compassionate way to kill a person.

Once again, the Law in the south is brutal.

  • @cynar
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    610 months ago

    So you’d rather have someone die in agony, rather than make a decision?

    I’m asking that if an evil must happen, should it be a different, lesser evil, or a normalised greater evil? The whether the evil should happen at all is a separate debate.

    As I said, I agree with you on the latter. The death penalty shouldn’t be a thing. I’m asking about the situation until you (as a society) actually get that far.

    • snooggums
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      Smith clearly died in agony from this method. Lethal injection was also promoted as painless, which it would be in theory and was not in practice for the same fundamental issue that the whole death penalty process involves incompetent people fucking up because competent people won’t take part in it.

      I can’t pick a method when it is guaranteed to be horrible because of the context of the death penalty.

      I will gladly pick a method or two for people who want to be euthanized and participate willingly. Those same methods will always be torture to someone who does not want to die as long as incompetent people are running the show.