‘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

  • PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “It’s only experimental in that it’s never been done before…”

    Why yes, that’s right. Which is what “experimental” means. Assuming you know what will happen before trying something is deeply unscientific.

    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      It’s not like it’s unstudied new science, experiments on prisoners are such a well known bad thing because people did cruel experiments which treated the subjects as objects - this is choosing what’s known to be an effective way to painlessly die over a more painful and less effective method.

      And yes we know what’s going to happen, nitrogen isn’t a new thing and people have asphyxiated due to it before (over a hundred people in the US in the last thirty years), just not when it’s been purposefully administered in a prison.