cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/14097254
Smith’s execution by “nitrogen hypoxia” took around 22 minutes, according to media witnesses, who were led into a viewing room at the William C Holman correctional facility in Atmore shortly before 8 pm local time.
After the nitrogen gas began flowing, Smith convulsed on the gurney for several minutes. The state had previously said the nitrogen gas would cause Smith to lose consciousness in seconds and die within minutes, according to the Associated Press.
“I’ve been to four previous executions and I’ve never seen a condemned inmate thrash in the way that Kenneth Smith reacted to the nitrogen gas,” Lee Hedgepeth, a journalist who witnessed the execution, told the BBC’s Newsday programme.
“All of those are way more painful, akin to torture.”
And you know know this because you’ve experienced all of them and come back to tell us about it?
Here’s a summary of some results from cyanide gas executions.
Here’s for the electric chair.
Here’s a short overview of lethal injection, not as heavy on gory details. But in short, the problem is that a paralyzing agent is one of the elements injected, and reports from people who survived botched executions are that it was excruciatingly painful and they were simply unable to indicate any distress.
It’s absurd to say that because I haven’t personally been executed I can’t learn anything about it or have an opinion on it.
I quoted you, and you spoke in an absolute which you can’t know. Regardless if he was feeling pain or not, convulsing for several minutes is suspect.
I can read accounts from people who’ve observed the results of the methods, and in some cases from interviewing people who survived partial executions, and I spoke in the belief after reading those accounts that each individual method has strong indications that it’s akin to torture. It might have sounded like my strong statement was just saying some bullshit but it’s actually based on individually learning about each method, and concluding for each one that there’s a strong indication that it’s akin to torture.
You’re free to feel differently, or to bring to the table some sort of reason why what I said was wrong, if you like.
Just because you don’t know shit about how executions work doesn’t mean nobody else does.
You should volunteer to experience all these methods of execution until right before your heart gives out, then be resuscitated. After that you can come and inform us all on which is most humane. Then you will truly know “how executions work”.
I’m sure you and your republican christian friends who support the death penalty would be happy to volunteer lol.
The fuck are you talking about?
All the common execution methods have been shown to fail often and result in great suffering for the person being executed. I don’t need to experience them to know that.
I actually agree with you lol. So what the fuck are you talking about.
My entire argument is about Rejecting all the confidence these people have saying this is humane.
They managed to find a way to make it inhumane. That just goes to show that malicious people can fuck anything up if they really want to.
Still, if I were going to be killed and got to choose the method, nitrogen would be high on my list of options, as long as it’s actually just nitrogen and not nitrogen with a side of CO2 poisoning.
I agree completely. I wouldn’t trust our justice system to do it correctly though either, especially a state like Alabama.