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.
FWIW, this is exactly what lethal injection would look like if we didn’t load the condemned up with muscle tranquilizers. Turns out, the body doesn’t take kindly to being killed.
We can offer treatment to pedophiles who are not abusing children, and use imprisonment to protect children from abusers. There is still no excuse to execute anyone.
FWIW, this is exactly what lethal injection would look like if we didn’t load the condemned up with muscle tranquilizers. Turns out, the body doesn’t take kindly to being killed.
Yes, lethal injection is just to make the spectators feel peaceful. It’s horrible for the person receiving it.
There is no need in the 21st century for any government to execute its citizens. It’s not the 1500s anymore. There’s no excuse, other than barbarism.
Well we could always OD them on morphine. But the cruelty is the point.
Except for pedophiles.
So you’re advocating barbarism.
We can offer treatment to pedophiles who are not abusing children, and use imprisonment to protect children from abusers. There is still no excuse to execute anyone.