Smith’s execution by “nitrogen hypoxia” took around 22 minutes, according to media witnesses, who were led into a viewing room at the William C Holman correctional facility in Atmore shortly before 8 pm local time.

  • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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    we have the ability to render people unconscious first…

    The people who have that ability would rightly lose their license if they used that ability to facilitate an execution.

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      i don’t think it’s “rightly”
      although execution is barbaric and should be outlawed; if you can’t stop it, making it more humane is still moral.

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          I agree with you. Imagine a country starts rounding up and murdering some ethnic/religious minority. Doctors shouldn’t be like “ahh we must help the government kill them in the most humane way possible!” If anything that’s enabling it.