Kenneth Smith’s nitrogen execution called ‘troubling’ by White House: Updates
www.independent.co.uk
Witness Reverend Jeff Hood told reporters he saw a man ‘struggling for their life’ for 22 minutes as Smith became the first US death row inmate executed by nitrogen asphyxia

“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.

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
    11·
    10 个月前

    Yeah I think when an airplane depressurizes at high altitude it’s something like 5 minutes and people are unconscious. And people just act like drunken idiots after one minute.

    Remember in the event of depressurization, put your own mask on before helping others. Because you’re likely to be a just complete idiot that’s just getting in the way if your brain isn’t properly oxygenated.

    But anyway… yeah these guys fucked up. A big problem with executions that people don’t talk about is that there isn’t a lot of overlap on the Venn diagram of people that are competent enough to perform an execution vs. the people who are willing to perform an execution.