Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates - eviltoast

“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.

  • snooggums@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    A person who is doing it voluntarily for suicide would not be struggling against impending doom and would be breathing normally. The context here is execution against someone’s will.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      the impending doom is coming in either scenario, either you play it up, fight it, and die trying, or you just follow through with it.

      That’s a conscious choice people are capable of making in that scenario.

      If you don’t want to struggle, you just breath normally.

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        9 months ago

        That’s a conscious choice people are capable of making in that scenario.

        I guess the person being put to death should have just made a decision to die then. That’s what you are saying right, that they suffered because they didn’t choose to just roll over and die?

        • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          9 months ago

          yeah, pretty much.

          The same exact decision you make when you get born into society and are forced to integrate, otherwise be ostracized.

          I don’t make the rules.