Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in nitrogen gas execution: Updates
www.independent.co.uk
Witness Reverend Jeff Hood told reporters he saw a man ‘struggling for their life’ for 22 minutes as Smith became the first US death row inmate executed by nitrogen asphyxia

“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.

  • TheOriginalGregToo@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    What should you punish murder with? Genuinely asking. I see many who want to do away with prisons and switch to rehabilitation. In some cases I can certainly understand that, and I am against for profit prisons, but I also know that a certain portion of society is just fundementally born with dysfunctional brains and no amount of rehabilitation will ever correct that. What do you do with the person who is sadistic and sociopathic in their disdain for other human life?

    • fat_stig@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Lock them away. Because the legal system can and does make mistakes.

      Being murdered by the state for a crime you didn’t commit is not the sign of a grown up society.

    • gapbetweenus@feddit.de
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      10 months ago

      What do you do with the person who is sadistic and sociopathic in their disdain for other human life?

      Sounds like a case for a mental institution. Why murder them?