‘Astonishingly cruel’: Alabama seeks to test execution method on death row ‘guinea pig’ - eviltoast

Nine months after Kenneth Smith’s botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen

  • ashok36@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It isn’t experimental is the way the word is normally used. We know what the effects of nitrogen asphyxiation are. People are accidentally killed by it all the time. If were going to have a death penalty (and I would argue we shouldn’t) then we should seek less cruel ways to do it, which nitrogen asphyxiation is.