• KISSmyOS@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Which this isn’t, in my opinion. It’s just nicer for the killer and the onlookers. But it’s not a dignified death. If you’re gonna kill people in the name of justice, let them stand up and shoot them.
    If you can’t stomach seeing or doing that, then maybe that should tell you something about the death penalty in general.

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          9 months ago

          I did read the article. He was holding his breath and shaking around.

          Death by nitrogen hypoxia isn’t something we invented for executions. I don’t know why news articles are pretending that it’s this brand new untested method of killing people.

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            I wonder if the shaking around was an attempt to break the mask’s seal. Maybe this method could be improved by using one of those assisted suicide nitrogen pods.

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            9 months ago

            He was holding his breath and shaking around.

            Which kind of shows it isn’t all that humane, doesn’t it? He was desperately trying to cling to life.

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              I mean, there’s nothing humane about killing someone who knows what’s happening and doesn’t want to die.

              If my life were ever going to be ended in an intentional manner, this is the method I would choose.

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      Yea but it’s still better than the ‘lets paralyze you so we feel humane and have your veins be lava for 12 hours as you disintegrate’ evolved option we use.

      I’m right there with you though, how the fuck is it that we don’t just put people under like before surgery, and then cut off their access to oxygen? Or a quick gunshot, or a shot with that cattle killing gun? The whole thing is so fucking stupid to me

      I’m against the death penalty personally, but the whole thing is so unbelievably absurd to me.

      Also, obligatory ayyyy Alabama represent, we made BBC News again

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        how the fuck is it that we don’t just put people under like before surgery

        You need meds for that, and a qualified anesthesiologist.

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        I think the best way to go, besides snu-snu (nothing will top that method), is to IV enough carfentanil to kill an entire city into the person. Even those with massive opioid tolerances can’t withstand a dose like that. It’s why the fentanyl epidemic was so deadly here.

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          Makes sense to me (in a world where we’re doing the death penalty. I’m against it, it’s just a ‘if you’re gonna do it, what the hell are y’all doing it that way for’).

          Someone rocked my world by pointing out they can’t get doctors involved because of their oaths, which I guess makes sense. But its also still another unbelievably absurd element of this