Witnesses watched through a window at an Alabama prison as Kenneth Eugene Smith became the nation's first person to be put to death using nitrogen gas.
  • @[email protected]English
    6•1 year ago

    For fuck’s sake. Are you telling me Americans, of all people Americans, are now too stupid to kill?

    What’s with these crazy new execution methods? Just shoot the guy. It’s not like you didn’t have a hundred thousand cops trained to kill on sight.

    • @captainlezbian
      2•1 year ago

      Because we’re uncomfortable with calmly and premeditatedly shooting someone. Capital punishment isn’t wildly popular here, it’s still controversial