▲ 188 ▼ ‘Astonishingly cruel’: Alabama seeks to test execution method on death row ‘guinea pig’ (www.theguardian.com) submitted 2 years ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 145 comments fedilink hide all child comments Nine months after Kenneth Smith’s botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen
[–] neuropean@kbin.social 28 points 2 years ago (1 child) Exactly, the headline is just trying to get people to react. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] derf82@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago It’s people’s that want to ban the death penalty. They have already have succeeded in getting pharmaceutical companies to stop providing the drugs traditionally used. Nitrogen, though, would be hard to ban. There is plenty of it, and it is cheap and easy to isolate. So they are arguing hard that it shouldn’t be accepted before they can prove how painlessly effective it can be. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] derf82@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago It’s people’s that want to ban the death penalty. They have already have succeeded in getting pharmaceutical companies to stop providing the drugs traditionally used. Nitrogen, though, would be hard to ban. There is plenty of it, and it is cheap and easy to isolate. So they are arguing hard that it shouldn’t be accepted before they can prove how painlessly effective it can be. permalink fedilink source parent