• KISSmyOS@feddit.de
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    In November 2022, Alabama officials aborted his execution by lethal injection after struggling for hours to insert an intravenous line’s needle in his body.

    In Smith’s second and final trip to the execution chamber on Thursday, executioners restrained him in a gurney and strapped a commercial industrial-safety respirator mask to his face. A canister of pure nitrogen was attached to the mask

    This doesn’t sound very professional!?

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      Professionals won’t participate because that’d break their hippocratic oath. That just leaves schmucks like me and you to try to figure it out.

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        I’d argue that a doctor would also be unqualified, since their entire qualification revolves around not killing people.
        But yeah, one major problem with the death penalty is that it is carried out by people who have no education or training in that matter.
        No one goes to school to learn the trade of an executioner.