‘Astonishingly cruel’: Alabama seeks to test execution method on death row ‘guinea pig’

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‘Astonishingly cruel’: Alabama seeks to test execution method on death row ‘guinea pig’
theguardian.com

Nine months after Kenneth Smith’s botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen

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The executions aren't done by doctors, as that goes against their hypocratic oath. It's not even done by nurses in a lot of cases. They're done by people who have barely any training. Botched executions are a dime a dozen because of this.

To be clear, I am against all forms of capital punishment. It's barbaric and has no place in 2023.

It's barbaric and has no place in 2023.

You need to account for the time zone difference between Alabama and the rest of the world. It's about UTC -50 years

Probably stored their date in a signed 16-bit integer

Pretty sure they actually view iPhones as a form of witchcraft.