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Alabama suffocated a man to death in a gas chamber tonight after starving him so he wouldn't choke on his own vomit as they did it. And this was deemed perfectly legal by multiple courts in the vaunted American legal system.
That's what happens when you value institutions over people.
Link for more info: https://www.reuters.com/legal/alabama-prepares-carry-out-first-execution-by-nitrogen-asphyxiation-2024-01-25/
The great performative irony of the death penalty is that the swiftest, most merciful death is that by firing squad, but it looks violent and brutal and so increasingly cruel and elaborate alternatives are sought.
I think an execution should be messy and brutal. Make the state, the people watching and the executioner really feel it. That way it has more meaning and maybe they'll stop doing it.
Making the death penalty clean, neat and "humane" just encourages the state to do it more. If it wasn't nice and neat, they'd hold back
Glad my state is in the news for something other than cousin fucking.
How about we stop killing people that were convicted? Oh wait, it's the USA we're talking about...
but hey, electronic governers for all cars so they can't go more than 10mph over, pastors stealing millions cuz "jbro said so", just to pull evidence from my lemmy front page today.
humanity will never learn to value individuals over institutions and we will never evolve beyond this due to that.