L4sBot@lemmy.worldB to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTIL the design of the guillotine was intended to make capital punishment more reliable and less painful in accordance with new Enlightenment ideas of human rights.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down11cross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
arrow-up124arrow-down1external-linkTIL the design of the guillotine was intended to make capital punishment more reliable and less painful in accordance with new Enlightenment ideas of human rights.en.wikipedia.orgL4sBot@lemmy.worldB to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square13fedilinkcross-posted to: todayilearned@lemmit.online
minus-squareaeternum@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoNow we have lethal injections where it takes hours to die and they’re in pain the whole time. How about we don’t kill people?
minus-squarebane_killgrind@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoSo it’s a bit of a privileged position to say that. Has nobody committed acts against you that you could defend yourself from if they were dead?
Now we have lethal injections where it takes hours to die and they’re in pain the whole time. How about we don’t kill people?
So it’s a bit of a privileged position to say that.
Has nobody committed acts against you that you could defend yourself from if they were dead?