‘Astonishingly cruel’: Alabama seeks to test execution method on death row ‘guinea pig’

https://lemmy.world/post/4337041

‘Astonishingly cruel’: Alabama seeks to test execution method on death row ‘guinea pig’ - Lemmy.world

Nine months after Kenneth Smith’s botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen

Cruel? Nitrogen asphyxiation is probably one of the most painless, gentle ways to go.

Your trigger that you can’t breathe is a buildup of carbon dioxide. But as you can still exhale, you feel no panic. You just slowly drift unconscious and die. I’d take it over most causes of death.

Yeah, compared to injecting horrifically painful substances, I don't see why this is controversial.