State’s ‘slow and agonizing’ execution of Kenneth Smith using an untested method labeled as cruel by experts and advocates

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.

  • xor@infosec.pub
    1·
    10 months ago

    i don’t think it’s “rightly”
    although execution is barbaric and should be outlawed; if you can’t stop it, making it more humane is still moral.

      • Swallowtail@beehaw.org
        4·
        10 months ago

        I agree with you. Imagine a country starts rounding up and murdering some ethnic/religious minority. Doctors shouldn’t be like “ahh we must help the government kill them in the most humane way possible!” If anything that’s enabling it.