72 points

it’s moments like these where i’m astounded that i can regularly wake up and go about my day in this society like it isn’t the most damnable nation to ever stain this earth

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35 points

I’ve been coping by telling myself that this is just the Biblical nation of Sodom, and that one day very soon, I will get to watch the fireballs land.

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52 points

He was still a human being why would you ever advocate to increase the amount of suffering in the world. That’s disgusting

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34 points

What did this guy say to me? they scrubbed it from the modlog

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40 points

And I would gladly see you go suffer the same way he did you fucking animal

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imagine what had to go horrifically wrong in his life for him to enact that kind of violence on others

monstrous behavior doesn’t just magically arise out of thin air

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Absolutely horrific.

At this point it’s trite to say that if this had happened in any other country, there would be incessant media outcry about it. That goes without saying. What I think is interesting is the nature of these experimental execution methods (god what an awful phrase). Who are they for? What is the purpose of this?

We can clearly see that it’s not to make it painless for the inmate. It’s also not to make it more efficient and quick, the guy choked and thrashed around for ten minutes. So what is the point of even experimenting with ways to kill a person? Is it merely supposed to be bloodless, to make cleaning up easier after the fact? A firing squad is quicker and relatively painless, because the person dies in a couple of seconds, rather than minutes, but it does make a mess.

I just don’t get it. If that person should die, then why go through all this fucking trouble when you can just shoot them, or alternatively shoot them up with enough fentanyl to kill a horse? Bullets and fentanyl are cheap. Cheaper than nitrogen gas, I presume. Sometimes it feels like the sadistic fucks in charge of this theater (and it is a theater, curtains and all) are just trying some new shit to see what it will do. Experimenting for its own sake.

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38 points

It’s some Mengele/Unit 731 shit

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35 points

Firing squad is messy, fentanyl I’m guessing being a controlled substance/opioid makes it a no go. I remember reading a few years back that the EU was ceasing the export of the chemical traditionally used in lethal injections in the U.S. so my guess is they’re experimenting with a replacement they can source easily.

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I think the point OP is making is that the state doesn’t appear to be interested in quick and affordable executions. If it were then it would seek to amend or change laws/regulations in order to do so. But instead the state pursues these experimental executions that are slower and crueler.

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It is also, ironically, because of a failure in the market.

A lot of drug manufacturers are reluctant to have “used by the Statesville Department of Corrections to execute people” on the Wikipedia page for the drug they are trying to to sell. Having your drug used to put people to death makes it harder to sell to people that want to stay alive. So even though there is an open market for these chemicals, it is harder and harder to convince manufacturers to supply that market. Even where it’s not explicitly prohibited like companies operating out of the European Union.

Also, the whole killing people thing kind of antithetical to most medical codes of ethics. Even outside of bad publicity, there are moral considerations, most doctors do not want to put their name to an execution method, it kind of goes against the whole “do no harm” thing. This is why they normally have some random first-year nursing student set the IV. And also why so many executions have failed in spectacular fashion because they couldn’t find a vein, or the IV pops out or whatever.

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so my guess is they’re experimenting with a replacement they can source easily.

This is precisely it. The reason lethal injection is so commonly fucked up in the US is because there is no standardized cocktail of drugs used. It varies literally prison by prison, and doesn’t even need a physician’s approval. I can’t remember where I read it, but I recall reading about one state where the drugs chosen were chosen by the prison warden solely by vibes

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and doesn’t even need a physician’s approval

Never gonna get a physicians approval since physicians take an oath not to kill people. That problem comes up a lot, as soon as the people giving you the drugs find out you’re using it for lethal injection they go “What the fuck what’s wrong with you no you can’t have more”

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Not only can they not easily source the chemicals, they can’t get doctors and nurses to administer the shots, so lethal injections tend to be administered by cops who don’t know what they’re doing which is why the previous attempt to kill this inmate failed.

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Critical support to our doctors and nurses, who realize that “do no harm” includes participating in state sanctioned murder.

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my guess is they’re experimenting with a replacement they can source easily

can confirm as a burgerian that this is indeed what is happening

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7 points

Firing squad ruins the veil of civility, and it also makes the pigs get PTSD from THINKING they killed a man. So instead we have to play Mengele to give it some kind of civil and scientific legitimacy

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We can clearly see that it’s not to make it painless for the inmate.

I think it was actually. As I described in my main comment in this thread, inert gas asphyxiation is painless. So I think the intent was indeed to make it painless.

They just didn’t take into account that the person might hold their breath, causing them to experience normal asphyxiation from the remaining CO2 in their body. Or they did take it into account by just telling him not to hold his breath or something, as if that would stop him from doing so.

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Gas asphyxiation is often painless/quick because you dont know its happening. Kind of impossible to do though once you tell someone your gonna smother them in a room and they wont try to save you. Who wouldn’t get a panic attack and hyperventilate over that?

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Inert gas asphyxiation is painless because it doesn’t cause a build-up of CO2, instead replacing both the oxygen and CO2. Your body only responds to a build-up of CO2, not a lack of oxygen. And the gas itself, being inert, doesn’t directly do anything to your body. Hyperventilating would probably just help speed it along.

Holding your breath however completely defeats the point because you burn through your oxygen, it becomes CO2, and it doesn’t leave the body because you’re not letting it.

Not that the blame is on him for holding his breath, I completely understand. It just shows that while this method would be great for euthanasia, it’s not so good for execution. I hope it isn’t demonized and banned for use in euthanasia because of this.

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just fucking shoot them god damn “the cruelty is the point”

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When hanging or firing squad are more humane alternatives, god damn america, that’s in the bible.

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49 points

The most humane method of execution that humanity has ever developed is still just a bullet to the head. People in this stupid fucking turd of a country are unfortunately too bloodthirsty to give up on execution, but also too squeamish to do it the honest and correct way.

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People really can survive getting shot in the head unfortunately.

CW: suicide

I’m friends with some doctors who work in emergency psych units and there are an alarmingly high number of patients who try to shoot themselves in the head and fail to die in various ways that maim them terribly and make their life so much worse than it was before.

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I understand what you’re saying, but execution style shootings are different from a failed suicide attempt. Most of the time it’s someone becoming squeamish at the last second and throwing the angle off which results in a botched attempt unfortunately.

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If someone is surviving a headshot then you aren’t using a big enough bullet.

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5 points

what caliber is a mandatory question here. Then again, I went to school with a kid who died on a fishing boat when a 22 went off accidentally and got him right in the (head, eye).

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15 points

Most humane way IMO is to put someone under as if they were having surgery. While they’re under, lop off the head with guillotine.

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10 points

Anesthetics take some serious skill to work effectively, and no reputable anesthesiologist would be willing to do it. That’s the main problem here, capital punishment is incompatible with the ethics of medicine. Doctors don’t want to kill people

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A bullet would still be faster, but in my personal opinion I want to relapse on nicotine with a final cig if I have to get executed (by firing squad, one of the only things my shithole of a state gets right)

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11 points

The most humane method of execution that humanity has ever developed is still just a bullet to the head

no love for the guillotine?

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6 points

slower death, less humane.

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6 points

We need to create an explosive guillotine that cuts at Mach 4 or greater

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11 points

The most humane method of execution that humanity has ever developed is still just a bullet to the head.

many people want their loved one’s body to be left intact and not riddled with holes or missing limbs

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8 points

Yeah I’d much prefer them with tons of IV stab wounds and then suffering for hours

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7 points

If I were being executed I really couldn’t give less of a shit about looking handsome for relatives

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10 points

Wouldn’t carbon monoxide be better? You kind of just fall asleep no?

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9 points

Google says that it’s more dangerous for bystanders in case of leakage. Probably the real reason is that it’s too expensive to do it safely.

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8 points

Yeah but we don’t do that because of the optics. And only because of the optics, really.

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optics as a concept needs to die. So many people whinge about optics and they never have a valid point underneath it.

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