cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/14097254
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.
After the nitrogen gas began flowing, Smith convulsed on the gurney for several minutes. The state had previously said the nitrogen gas would cause Smith to lose consciousness in seconds and die within minutes, according to the Associated Press.
“I’ve been to four previous executions and I’ve never seen a condemned inmate thrash in the way that Kenneth Smith reacted to the nitrogen gas,” Lee Hedgepeth, a journalist who witnessed the execution, told the BBC’s Newsday programme.
Just because you don’t know shit about how executions work doesn’t mean nobody else does.
You should volunteer to experience all these methods of execution until right before your heart gives out, then be resuscitated. After that you can come and inform us all on which is most humane. Then you will truly know “how executions work”.
I’m sure you and your republican christian friends who support the death penalty would be happy to volunteer lol.