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US Politics 19h
It still gets me that hanging and firing squads have largely been banned for being "inhumane", while lethal injections almost never work, take hours, are apparently excruciating, and *cannot* be administered by licensed doctors
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US Politics 20h
tf you mean she survived 2 lethal injections???
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Anonymous 19h

I also think it’s fucking hilarious that the sacklers won’t sell fentanyl or morphine to states for the purpose of painless executions but are just fine giving bonuses to doctors for getting people addicted to them

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Anonymous 19h

I thought the doctor thing was just because they’d all refuse based on their hippopotamus oath

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Anonymous 18h

Firing squad is actually considered the most humane execution method. Lethal injection is considered one of the most inhumane.

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Anonymous 19h

it’s all about the illusion of it being painless!!! like reading about the man who’s execution method was nitrogen hypoxia (thinking it’d be even MORE painless than lethal injection) is chilling lol

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Anonymous 19h

They work like 99% of the time you just never hear about most of them

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Anonymous 6h

states with the death penalty report a >20% higher murder rate than states that ban it

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 19h

We need to get out the ouija board since he did experience both

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 19h

Lethal injection has the highest failure rate (7.2%) so actually they only work 92.8% of the time

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7h

Wait what happened to him? That should actually be painless. Freaky but true, you can’t tell when you’re suffocating, your body just goes by whether or not it can get rid of CO2

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 1h

they didn’t sedate him, so he could feel himself suffocating. he held his breath for a few minutes too which made it worse. apparently the coroner’s office reported his blood was extremely dark & there was like. foam in his trachea & fluid in his lungs

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1h

Reading up on it, it looks like the biggest problem was just fear, which makes sense. That’s what a sedative could’ve helped. He only felt like he was suffocating because he held his breath, though. The human body really truly has no idea how much oxygen it’s getting. I also couldn’t find anything corroborating the foam or lung fluid part

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 49m

“examination reveals pulmonary congestion and edema” “the tracheobronchial tree…contains a small amount of frothy fluid” so i misspoke w using the word foam

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 34m

Yeah, that also makes sense in a really dark way. He was in a mask, strapped flat to a table, and terrified by understanding what was happening to him. It’s not weird that he choked on some of his own saliva as it happened

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 28m

yeah im not saying its weird or out of the ordinary, it’s pretty typical of suffocating, i just find it eerie. especially the involuntary thrashing/struggling/groaning/gasping that seems to happen. lol

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