An Alabama inmate would be the test subject for the “experimental” execution method of nitrogen hypoxia, his lawyers argued, as they asked judges to deny the state’s request to carry out his death sentence using the new method.
In a Friday court filing, attorneys for Kenneth Eugene Smith asked the Alabama Supreme Court to reject the state attorney general’s request to set an execution date for Smith using the proposed new execution method. Nitrogen gas is authorized as an execution method in three states but it has never been used to put an inmate to death.
Smith’s attorneys argued the state has disclosed little information about how nitrogen executions would work, releasing only a redacted copy of the proposed protocol.
well what you describe is how Normal executions go. Doctors won’t do it so it’s done by prison guards with no medical training and is often so disgusting the witnesses need counseling
I’ve held dying people and animals in my arms as well as seen plenty of things die…Witnesses need counseling…heh, what did they think was going to happen? writhe in rainbows and unicorn throes of glitter death?
Everyone should have to witness the brutality of Death. there would be less religion and less assholes in this world. but the ones left would make tv-evangelists and modern serial killers look saintly.
A lot of human Bullshit exists from Ignorance. Show everyone what happens no matter what, Death. it’ll make people generally drop flights of political fancy and focus more on what matters
My brother in christ, public executions were a thing in a time when the majority was religious.
Yeah, I know. History was then. I’m making an analysis of the Now and Moving Forward. if you want to shape my guess about the future with history, sure. It’s a reference that can be used, but it doesn’t really complete the picture i was painting.
(Jacob Geller’s The False Evolution of Execution Methods)
It’s different than you might imagine. There’s a certain unmistakable mix of institutional power, mandate, callousness, and incompetence that makes state execution’s uniquely awful.