Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates

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Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in nitrogen gas execution: Updates
independent.co.uk

“Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total.”

Pretty compassionate way to kill a person.

Once again, the Law in the south is brutal.

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Concrete spall would be too dangerous. Trust the tungsten state sponsored murder cube; it is the death of the future, today!

just makes it more exciting :)

Have you no concern for safety? Somebody could be hurt.

humans love danger! It's what we've been doing since the dawn of time!

We are talking about a legal murder here. We don't want any chance that somebody could be hurt. If people want to experience danger, they can play Russian roulette, budget skydive, fly on a Boeing, go to school in America, drive while black, try drugs from China, speed in New York on a motorcycle, explore abandoned buildings and eat the paint, become an amateur arborist, deliver pizzas, be a woman, own a tiger or chimpanzee, take a firearms self-defense course run by a balding guy with a ponytail, or compete in Gol/Nanggol.

There is no need for someone to be uselessly harmed at a state execution! We live in a sane society.

"go to school in america" or go see a legally performed and orchestrated murder.

Seems perfectly equivalent to me!