The state plans to carry out the first U.S. execution via nitrogen hypoxia with Kenneth Smith, who survived an earlier attempt to execute him by lethal injection

Death to America, and death to the South in particular. Scorch that motherfucking earth.

  • @GinAndJucheM
    hexbear
    32
    5 months ago

    Is nitrogen hypoxia the one that doesn’t trigger the feeling of suffocation? Redditors love that shit because it lets them claim it’s painless and feel good about the prison system murdering people.

    • @Tessellecta@feddit.nl
      hexbear
      18
      5 months ago

      If done well nitrogen hypoxia should be like falling asleep and never waking up. If you fuck it up by somehow not removing CO2 fast enough, it feels like suffocating.

      It's probably better then lethal injection, but still really fucked up.

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      2
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      Yep, but people will still seize and vomit sometimes so it's often not visually pleasant.

  • kickit [he/him, they/them]
    hexbear
    27
    5 months ago

    Am I missing something obvious as to why they don't use firing squads? Is it a matter of "optics" or so whoever's making the lethal* injection juice can sell at a huge markup?

    • Awoo [she/her]
      hexbear
      18
      5 months ago

      Makes the execution less violent and more "acceptable".

      • oregoncom [he/him]
        hexbear
        12
        5 months ago

        liberals will commit the most horrific crimes against nature just to avoid the optics of violence.

    • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
      hexbear
      16
      5 months ago

      Yeah, everything that was done to make the death penalty more "humane" has been done to make it more comfortable for the executioners and the public, rather than for the ones being executed.

    • Dolores [love/loves]
      hexbear
      13
      5 months ago

      it also denies the murdered prisoner a bit of dignity imo, instead of standing, cursing his killers its this medicalized byzantine ritual

      • RyanGosling [none/use name]
        hexbear
        4
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        cursing his killers its this medicalized byzantine ritual

        You also can’t taunt their killers and haunt their dreams before they unload their rifles. Lethal injection means they watch you ‘peacefully’ fall asleep

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
    hexbear
    21
    5 months ago

    It's a better form of execution than lethal injection but death penalty should be reserved for billionaires and fascists post revolution.

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
      hexbear
      14
      5 months ago

      With billionaires, take away their money and let them pick a working class job. If they're really some big brain business genius they'll rise up the ranks soon enough. If not, they won't. Make it a reality TV show.

      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
        hexbear
        8
        5 months ago

        Make it a reality TV show.

        This would be the best post revolution show! Trap all the billionaires in a Truman Show-like similacrum of late stage capitalism without any of the advantages they were birn with and watch them as they slowly discover they will never become billionaires again

      • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
        hexbear
        2
        edit-2
        5 months ago

        Yea, guillotine or firing squad for the billionaires. Not much to go wrong there.

  • @BRINGit34@lemmygrad.ml
    hexbear
    21
    5 months ago

    The death penalty is so weird in America. Most young people think we should get rid of it. But old fuckers love it. I have heard on multiple ocasions in the bible belt that 'eye for an eye' is a good system. America is in the dark ages

    • spectre [he/him]
      hexbear
      5
      5 months ago

      I don't see any of those fuckers gouging out their eyes when it causes them to sin (technically different but if they're trying to be "by the book" I want to see the follow through)

  • oregoncom [he/him]
    hexbear
    16
    5 months ago

    If I were getting executed I would prefer to just be shot in the head and die like a person. I still don't get why the US has to do all these looney toons ass methods of execution. Is it to strip away any small bit of dignity from the prisoner?

      • Diablosmacc [any]
        hexbear
        2
        5 months ago

        It’s farcical. They could inject prisoners with Nembutal or something and it would be a painless death but instead they use those shitty lethal injection drugs which both don’t always work, lol like in this case, and are known to be incredibly painful

  • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    11
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    Not tested as an execution method, but we do know what happens to people who die of it. Marginally better version of a horrific act that the state shouldn't be allowed to do in the first place.

    Edit: Fucking nope. May as well be the gas chamber with hydrogen cyanide again.

  • barrbaric [he/him]
    hexbear
    7
    5 months ago

    IIRC the only reason we haven't brought back gas chambers w/ inert gas as a method of execution is the bad optics.