Interesting Global NewsEnglish · 5 months ago

Alabama inmate executed with nitrogen gas was ‘shaking violently’ for 22 minutes, witnesses say

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Alabama inmate executed with nitrogen gas was ‘shaking violently’ for 22 minutes, witnesses say

www.theguardian.com

Interesting Global NewsEnglish · 5 months ago

State executes Kenneth Smith with untested procedure that lawyers had argued amounted to cruel and unusual punishment

Archived version: https://archive.ph/YdfmT
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240126184006/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/25/alabama-executes-kenneth-smith-nitrogen-gas

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Bro at this point, just fucking shoot them…

Or better yet, how about we don’t kill people as a form of legal punishment in any decade officially taking place after the middle ages?

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