Witnesses watched through a window at an Alabama prison as Kenneth Eugene Smith became the nation's first person to be put to death using nitrogen gas.
For the guy you replied, to the violence isn’t a side effect, it’s the goal. The cruelty is the point.
And in that case, why even pretend? This entire execution method was conceived as a way to be “more humane”. It wouldn’t exist if not for that objective. And if we don’t care about the cruelty, just use hanging or firing squad.
Violence begets more violence. Every time. Killing this person does nothing to bring back the woman they killed, and just pisses off even more people.
For the guy you replied, to the violence isn’t a side effect, it’s the goal. The cruelty is the point.
And in that case, why even pretend? This entire execution method was conceived as a way to be “more humane”. It wouldn’t exist if not for that objective. And if we don’t care about the cruelty, just use hanging or firing squad.
That’s your opinion. I would hazard a guess that more people support the execution of violent murderers than oppose it.