Chris GeidnerBreaking: SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to try and suffocate Kenneth Smith to death. The three liberal justices would have granted him a stay of execution in connection with his challenge to the state's untested nitrogen gas execution protocol. https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-scotus-conservatives-allow
Update, 9:40 p.m. ET: State officials said Smith died at 8:25 p.m. CT, according to reporters on site at Holman Correctional Facility, where the state’s executions take place. https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-scotus-conservatives-allow
“Writhing and thrashing.” https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-scotus-conservatives-allow
LiveByReason@chrisgeidner basically, it sounds like they might as well have just covered his face with a pillow for 10 minutes.
I can think of few things crueller than suffocating someone to death, leading to a protracted period of terror and trauma as your brain and body fight to try to breathe.
Basmitharts@chrisgeidner
Horrific.
Horrific.
Dan M@chrisgeidner wow, this is the same guy they tried and failed to kill with lethal injection a while back. Torture upon torture
Tricot Feelya@chrisgeidner when I was 14 I nearly drowned from hypoxia while scuba diving, and, although I was a small teenager, almost took a 250 pound diver with me. Fighting hypoxia for two minutes is absolutely agonizing, much less four or longer. That’s truly the definition of cruel and unusual.