re: Alabama set to execute by nitrogen hypoxia…

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The main thing is to kill him

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Firing squad or hanging has my vote

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insert why not both gif

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The takeaway from 1930s and 40s Germany is there is no humane way to end a life.

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Planned Parenthood says otherwise.

Is it on pay per view?

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Aged 22, Smith was one of two men convicted in the murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher´s wife in 1988 that rocked a small north Alabama community.

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I'm all for the death penalty, but good lord its rather stupid after 35 years has passed.


and the simplest method of death should be they fly you over the gulf of mexico several miles out and just drop you out of the plane from 20,000'+. 99% chance they'll die on impact adn then get eaten, or they may survive the fall, and then drown/get eaten. It at least gives them some shitty time to think about what's about to happen, as it's happening.

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Sounds like an origin stoty for a Mr Freeze supervillain.

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That would one of the the risks. Then we would have to hope some for some billionaire who lost his parents to street crime.

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Typical liberals are concerned about the suffering and misery that the prisoner may go through.

You see they’ll give a shite about the suffering that the people that they murdered went through

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So being opposed to the state causing another human being misery and suffering is political?

A slight majority of Americans support the death penalty. In some cases it is doubtlessly necessary and just, but as applied in the US there is nothing just about it. The support is fading and fading fast because even among those who support the death penalty an overwhelming majority do not trust the state or federal government to mete out the ultimate penalty fairly or efficiently. Its incredible expensive and divisive and will die of its own weight sooner rather than later as more and more Americans realize the state has no business killing people using the current model.

I’ve been saying for years that death my nitrogen asphyxiation makes so much sense. Nitrogen is cheap, the death is painless, and the death is instant.

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Wouldn't a firing squad

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That's the Utah way...

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Actually vengeance can be quite cathartic to the victims of violent crime...

Why would you deny them a chance to relieve some of their pain?

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I wouldn't. I am not totally opposed to the death penalty. I am totally opposed to how it is applied in the US currently. The damage done to 332 million people when the state can summarily execute people when it is a documented fact that 2.35 of every hundred people sentenced to death in the US since 1972 have been innocent of the crimes they were convicted of, is far worse than the closure and cathartic effect afforded some victims. Most of those exonerations do not involve new evidence or new technology, most of them were convictions where the evidence that ultimately proved the accused's innocence was available at the time of the initial trial.

As far as the victims families and catharsis it could well be that they would reach the same level of acceptance and closure in the average 18 years it takes to execute the convicted IF the case wasn't constantly be rehashed. There are numerous studies concerning this issue which indicate the victims left behind find no catharsis or closure when the convicted is executed. Many also mention the period between conviction and execution has torn their families apart because of differing perspectives over the issue of executing the convicted.

Mathematically there is very little chance that all of the people who have been executed in the US since 1972 were guilty. 2.35 out of 100 who have been convicted have been exonerated. Imagine the victims suffering when it is documented that someone who was innocent was executed? Simply based on the data we have imagine the suffering imposed on the estimated 1970 people (10 per exoneration) who were put through the suffering of their loss, the initial trial and the appeals only to find that the state convicted the wrong person and the criminal that caused their grief is still unknown and possibly at large. Couple that with the suffering imposed on the family of the exonerated, not to mention the suffering imposed on the exonerated themselves. The catharsis that some no doubt experience is not worth the suffering in just those cases which are known.