Nine months after Kenneth Smith’s botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen
Nine months after Kenneth Smith’s botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen
I hate the death penalty - its barbaric, it kills innocent people etc.
But if people are going to do it I can think of no better metaphor for a state sanctioned death penalty than an enourmous hydraulic press.
All these injections and ethical guidelines are misguided. The cruelty is the point so they might as well just make it quick and lean into it.
“Crushed by the weight of the system.”
Maybe “torn apart by the gears of justice?”
I’m pro-death penalty in theory but against it in practice. There’s definitely some people who forfeit their right to exist with the rest of us. But we can never apply it fairly or even guarantee we aren’t executing actually innocent people. And the ugliness and evil of that is more than enough to make me against capital punishment.
It’s sometimes wrong is my #1 reason.
Om top of that, it’s not fairly distributed sometimes and it’s also more expensive than just life in prison. With all that, what’s the purpose? It’s clearly to make other people feel good, not about justice. People love revenge porn, and I think that says a lot about us as people that we’re willing to deal with all the negatives to bring us joy about ending another person’s life.