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No, in the USA our executions are cruelty-free.
by paloaltokid 10y ago
No, in the USA our executions are cruelty-free.
- filoeleven 10y agoThis is not true. States have been unable to get the drugs they are supposed to use for lethal injection, so they've been substituting others, with horrible consequences. The linked article[0] is one example; there are plenty of others. There's also the fact that the second drug in the cocktail has always been a paralytic: "But the paralytic also meant that, for years, witnesses could not necessarily tell if something was going wrong with an execution. Prisoners would be frozen, even while suffering immensely. Sometimes, the evidence would only be revealed in an autopsy." [0]https://theintercept.com/2015/04/30/lockettoneyearlater/ https://theintercept.com/2015/04/30/lockettoneyearlater/
- paloaltokid 10y agoI think you were missing the sarcasm in my comment. ;)