Kenneth Smith, 58, is facing execution by an untested method that has never before been used in capital punishment in the US. It’s a technique that has been rejected on ethical grounds by veterinarians for the euthanasia of most animals other than pigs: death by nitrogen gas.

    • @jarfil@beehaw.org
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      18 months ago

      I’d settle for only killing those who wanted to die… but that would make too much sense, or something.