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He wasn't "starved", it says right there in the article that he was given his last meal this morning (Thursday) and allowed no solids after 10am because he suffered from nausea and was worried he'd vomit.

It's okay to be anti-execution but you don't have to make shit up to be inflammatory, there's plenty of other valid reasons to be against execution but making sure a man doesn't choke on his own vomit isn't one of them.

Honestly, if I were to choose suicide, I'd go for a nitrogen slumber. Seems like a painless way to go.

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"Starving?"

I bet surgeons hate you

Bluntly, choking on your own vomit is probably a really terrible way to die. If I recall correctly he was put in a chamber where the majority of the air in the room was replaced with nitrous oxide, asphyxiating the subject. If he had choked on his vomit, it would have been closer to drowning than suffocating in the manner that was intended.

By asphyxiating him in this way, his suffering was effectively eliminated during the execution; but if he had vomited and choked on it.... Well, I don't know if you've ever found yourself short of air in a body of water, but it's a pretty unpleasant experience. It only gets worse as you get closer to death when drowning (from what I've heard/understood from people who have nearly drown).

The intention of not giving him food so he didn't vomit, was a humane decision, not intended for additional suffering and cruelty.

Twisting the intent like this is doing a disservice to the entire process. You can dislike capital punishment all you want, and I may even agree that it shouldn't be done, but the fact is, this statement is misleading at best. I'm all for a healthy discussion on it, but let's not conflate the issue with these misconceptions.

Sennett was found dead in her home March 18, 1988, with eight stab wounds in the chest and one on each side of her neck. Smith was one of two men convicted in the killing. The other, John Forrest Parker, was executed in 2010.

Prosecutors said they were each paid $1,000 to kill Sennett on behalf of her pastor husband, who was deeply in debt and wanted to collect on insurance.

Better go after every hospital for "starving" patients before surgery

love how we can murder criminals but if i want to murder myself legally, it's impossible.

Thanks guys, very cool.

And this was after botching a first execution where the execution team had some questionable judgement

This is what happens when education systems fail. They produce people who don't know what the hell they are talking about.

I'm assuming this person isn't intentionally trying to deceive.

Glad my state is in the news for something other than cousin fucking.

but hey, electronic governers for all cars so they can't go more than 10mph over, pastors stealing millions cuz "jbro said so", just to pull evidence from my lemmy front page today.

humanity will never learn to value individuals over institutions and we will never evolve beyond this due to that.

How about we stop killing people that were convicted? Oh wait, it's the USA we're talking about...

The AG said it went according to plan and will happen again.

Sensationalism at its finest! Be outraged everyone!

This is what happens when you won't take up arms against the government.

The great performative irony of the death penalty is that the swiftest, most merciful death is that by firing squad, but it looks violent and brutal and so increasingly cruel and elaborate alternatives are sought.