Alabama exexcutes Kenneth Smith using Nitrogen gas
Posted by RaskolnikovX on January 26, 2024, 6:38 am
What a civilised country. They are trying to prevent the details being leaked but it sounds like anything but a humane departure with reports about his struggling for a long time and the gurney shaking violently.
Capital punishment is something I've read a lot on from when I was very young and there is only really one reason that they keep it in the states and that's to let scumbag politicians act like they are the law and order candidate and appeal to the eye for an eye bible belt droolers. Everything else is hot air. Even the old chestnut about "closure for the victim's family" is crumbling in the face of testimony from said families saying it hasn't changed anything except another person being dead.
Something different appeared in this article though. I've read reports on pretty much every execution in the US for thirty years and this has NEVER been mentioned in any of them but now....what strange timing.
In the run-up to the execution, Alabama had come under a raft of domestic and international criticism. Hundreds of Jewish clergy and community leaders across the US signed a letter organised by L’chaim!, Jews Against the Death Penalty, calling for a halt.
“Just the idea of using gas for executions is an affront to our community,” the co-founder of L’chaim, Mike Zoosman, said. “The Nazi legacy of experimentation to find the most expeditious way to rid our community of undesirable prisoners is an undercurrent for anyone who is aware of that history that should not be repeated in Alabama, or anywhere.”
Using gas to clear tunnels and indiscriminate bombing apparently isn't an affront to their community....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.