A federal judge who is weighing whether to allow the nation’s first execution by nitrogen hypoxia to go forward next month, urged Alabama on Thursday to change procedures so the inmate can pray and say his final words before the gas mask is placed on his face.
U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker made the suggestion in a court order setting a Dec. 29 deadline to submit information before he rules on the inmate’s request to block the execution. The judge made similar comments the day prior at the conclusion of a court hearing.
Alabama is scheduled to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith on Jan. 25 in what would be the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas. Nitrogen hypoxia is authorized as an execution method in Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma but has never been used to put an inmate to death.
The proposed execution method would use a gas mask, placed over Smith’s nose and mouth, to replace breathable air with nitrogen, causing Smith to die from lack of oxygen.
Physical or mental pain someone experiences dying will definitely be mentally painful if you know its gonna happen and once someone stops responding and the brainwaves go spaz i don’t think thats especially nice either not 100% sure as i’ve never Bern braindead
People aren’t given the death penalty for giving out flowers and candy.
agree and i think there are some circumstances where Kipling someone is justified but its never ethical, especially if the Person doesn’t Pose a threat anymore
How exactly is something ‘justified but not ethical’?
If something saves more people by killing some the action of killing few is unethical however because it saves more the action is just
Yeah 1 in 8 are given it for no reason at all and later exonerated.