Posted on 09/18/2023 9:12:00 AM PDT by aculeus
After botching a series of executions by lethal injection, the State of Alabama is planning to use nitrogen gas to put condemned prisoners to death. The first execution will amount to a human experiment, because neither Alabama nor any other state has ever tried to kill people this way.
Late last month, prison guards distributed the state’s new execution protocol to prisoners in solitary confinement on Alabama’s death row. One hundred and sixty men and five women await execution in Alabama. They would be secured to a gurney, their nose and mouth would be covered by a mask, and nitrogen would be pumped into their lungs until they suffocate.
Alabama is seeking to conduct the first such experiment on Kenneth Eugene Smith, who already survived a botched execution. Last November, Mr. Smith spent hours strapped to a lethal-injection gurney as the execution team needled around in several locations to insert two intravenous lines without success, before calling off the execution
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Kill them the way they killed their victims.
Kind of funny that The Pythons managed to get a bunch of SKS rifles for a British firing squad.
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Capital punishment is not the wrong thing. It’s clearly Constitutional and it’s clearly morally and Biblically correct.
Period.
L
Are only 2.15% of congress women?
Over half of states have abolished capital punishment or have a moratorium on it. That’s Consitutional, too.
I was hoping it was “Drag them behind a galloping horse on a rocky trail”. Oh well. Maybe someday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzObnAYyzMU
“I do think it is the better course, leaving the horror of someone’s crimes to God’s ultimate judgement while we keep the person permanently removed from society.”
Pay Turkey to keep them in prison? For life? Works for me!
WALL + FIRING SQUAD ===100% effective
I don’t know about congress but according to the article I quoted 2.15% of death row inmates are women.
Why not just use fentanyl.
They could go to the border and score tons!!!
I’ve alway wondered how our pets can be “put to sleep” and it is gentle and kind and we can’t put people “down” in the same way.
Send them to Planned Parenthood.
Isn’t there some gruesome rule that they must be awake and cognizant when they’re killed?
The trash can would be cruel and unusual.
The main reason for going to N2 is that supplies of the gas can’t be effectively boycotted by manufactures like the injections can. That it kills painlessly protects against legal challenges.
Been there, done that.
Refuted every one.
You may not like it but it’s legal and biblical.
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“That’s Consitutional, too.”
Indeed it is. It’s also Constitutional to use it.
L
beat me to it.
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