The state plans to carry out the first U.S. execution via nitrogen hypoxia with Kenneth Smith, who survived an earlier attempt to execute him by lethal injection

Death to America, and death to the South in particular. Scorch that motherfucking earth.

  • kickit [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Am I missing something obvious as to why they don’t use firing squads? Is it a matter of “optics” or so whoever’s making the lethal* injection juice can sell at a huge markup?

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    If I were getting executed I would prefer to just be shot in the head and die like a person. I still don’t get why the US has to do all these looney toons ass methods of execution. Is it to strip away any small bit of dignity from the prisoner?

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      With billionaires, take away their money and let them pick a working class job. If they’re really some big brain business genius they’ll rise up the ranks soon enough. If not, they won’t. Make it a reality TV show.

      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Make it a reality TV show.

        This would be the best post revolution show! Trap all the billionaires in a Truman Show-like similacrum of late stage capitalism without any of the advantages they were birn with and watch them as they slowly discover they will never become billionaires again

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    The death penalty is so weird in America. Most young people think we should get rid of it. But old fuckers love it. I have heard on multiple ocasions in the bible belt that ‘eye for an eye’ is a good system. America is in the dark ages

  • GinAndJuche [comrade/them]@hexbear.netM
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    Is nitrogen hypoxia the one that doesn’t trigger the feeling of suffocation? Redditors love that shit because it lets them claim it’s painless and feel good about the prison system murdering people.

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      If done well nitrogen hypoxia should be like falling asleep and never waking up. If you fuck it up by somehow not removing CO2 fast enough, it feels like suffocating.

      It’s probably better then lethal injection, but still really fucked up.