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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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[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

To make the same point in a less sarcastic way, it is a problem that just throwing the term pedophile at someone immediately ostracizes them and society is willing to condem them to effective death.

It's so bad that a jury doesn't even really need evidence to indict. Because apparently seeing one, potentially censored image is enough to cause PTSD?

I've seen people being decapitated without getting PTSD. I've seen horrible things from the Holocaust. I don't think one image is going to cause permanent damage. (I fully believe dealing with this stuff every day for years can be an issue. That's different.)

We need to drop just a bit of the hysteria.

[-] butterflyattack@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

A while back round where I live a guy was burned to death by a mob of his neighbours because people were saying he was a pedophile. Turned out he had only been taking photos of kids vandalising his garden. Oops.

[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago
[-] butterflyattack@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing, but, at the same time, I really wish it wasn't true.

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They should've given the people who did it a life order with all chances of parole chewed up, spat out, burnt up and the ashes shot into oblivion before being buried 900 feet underground.

[-] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Holy fucking shit. It never once occurred to me that lynching was a thing in the modern UK. Mass stabbings? Sure. Getting mugged and beaten by gangs of teens, okay. But straight up lynching? Fuck.

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I agree with you when it comes to the ostracizing problem. I would just like to remind you that not everyone is psychologically identical to you. Some (perhaps many) people CAN get PTSD by looking at a picture of a terrible crime.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think a bunch of people got PTSD from 4chan 2004.

[-] WldFyre@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, 4chan, full of normal, well-adjusted people

[-] angrystego@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think willing participants count ;)

[-] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have seen some horrible shit too. Like that girl and her male cousin rapping in a bathroom with a gun, and she winds up accidentally killing her cousin and then killing herself after she realized what she did. Yeah, never going to forget that. Don't have PTSD from it, but definitely was traumatic.

[-] Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

When I was 11 I saw a whole 40 minute documentary from 1945 about it and I haven't gotten PTSD from it.

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