Alabama inmate opposes being ‘test subject’ for new nitrogen execution method
Alabama inmate opposes being ‘test subject’ for new nitrogen execution method
Attorneys for an inmate are asking the Alabama Supreme Court to reject the state's request to set an execution date for him using the new execution method of nitrogen hypoxia.
An Alabama inmate would be the test subject for the “experimental” execution method of nitrogen hypoxia, his lawyers argued, as they asked judges to deny the state’s request to carry out his death sentence using the new method.
In a Friday court filing, attorneys for Kenneth Eugene Smith asked the Alabama Supreme Court to reject the state attorney general’s request to set an execution date for Smith using the proposed new execution method. Nitrogen gas is authorized as an execution method in three states but it has never been used to put an inmate to death.
Smith’s attorneys argued the state has disclosed little information about how nitrogen executions would work, releasing only a redacted copy of the proposed protocol.
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i could never live with myself if i put anyone to death, regardless of how horrific an act they committed.
That's why apparently the execution squads are told that at least one of them has blank bullets. And why two doctors do the lethal injection procedure simultaneously, but one of them is injecting saline. This way everyone can legitimately think "maybe it wasn't me who killed them". I think I read in in "Behave" by Robert M. Sapolsky.
Meanwhile, medieval executioners simply wore a hood so nobody knew who they were.
Yeah but I think my answer was not about "I wouldn't want anyone to know I killed someone" but more about "I couldn't live with myself knowing that I killed someone".
You're a soft wrist
It's not like there hasn't been a mistrial ever in history and executed an innocent person. Right? Right?
Mistakes happen, get over it.
Well certainly you will be saying that when you are sentenced to death.
Death sentences are carried with DNA or self inculpation proof.
Not every cases involve those.