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[News] Alabama carries out first nitrogen gas execution
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The Wizard
Well-known member
- Jul 2, 2009
- 18,383
The death penalty should be abolished, reading the details of this it was entirely predictable and excruciatingly obvious given what everyone knows about nitrogen inhalation that this would not be a pleasant death to witness or endure.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,266
Oh well. Anyway...
Coldeanseagull
Opinionated
An eye for an eye an' all that, but could have just shot him....they're not short of ammunition for that sort of thing over there
- Oct 17, 2008
- 10,712
I am vehemently anti capital punishment, so this sickens me.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
He lived another 30 years + after killing an innocent woman, he got the better deal.
US Seagull
Well-known member
They basically suffocated him to death. Horrific.
- Oct 17, 2008
- 10,712
Perhaps, yes, but this doesn’t make capital punishment acceptable. Just take a look at the sheer number of miscarriages of justice discovered (or, should I say, “revealed”) after 20-30 years in prison or even on death row. Without the death penalty, he still would never have been released anyway.
And don’t talk to me about cost; most US prisons are “for profit” businesses, and their cost is a drop in the ocean in a nation where money is king. Compare and contrast the yearly cost of every single prisoner in the entire United States with one month of profit for Big Pharma.
And Americans think they're an advanced society ?
The death penalty has no place in a civilised society
tigertim68
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- Sep 3, 2012
- 2,331
No execution is pleasant it’s not meant to be , but that is what the Americans want ,
if they are going to execute someone , don’t know why they just don5 use a firing squad, it’s quick and efficient
kojak
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- Jan 17, 2022
- 766
So was the crime
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
But you could sit him down, blame it on his past then ask him nicely not to do it again.
kojak
Well-known member
- Jan 17, 2022
- 766
Yes,we all know that works
nwgull
Well-known member
No worse than any of the other methods they have to be honest.
US Seagull
Well-known member
That doesn't make it okay.
METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
- 6,084
That's the ridiculous irony of the death penalty in the US what with the endless appeals.
What with the guns and death penalty in most states thank God I don't live there!
- Jul 10, 2003
- 25,877
It's so well documented that I won't even bother with the overwhelming evidence that the death penalty is not a deterrent in any shape or form. I'm sure even you're capable of finding that on Google.
But, maybe you should watch this.
Because as the 1st Earl of Birkenhead famously said
Judge: I've listened to you for an hour and I'm none wiser.
Earle of Birkenhead: None the wiser, perhaps, my lord but certainly better informed.
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tedebear
Legal Alien
The death penalty needs removing the world over. Murder is illegal, yet the state can the do it? Even worse in the US when they get it wrong so often. You kill someone and found guilty by a jury of your fellow man, you have to sit in a prison for the rest of your life is my view....This guy died a horrid death today. The jury found him guilty but suggested life in prison. The judge overrules them, and then subequently the ability of the judge to do this is no longer, yet they don't reverse this one...Why??