Witnesses watched through a window at an Alabama prison as Kenneth Eugene Smith became the nation's first person to be put to death using nitrogen gas.
  • bleistift2English
    126·
    9 months ago9 months ago

    For fuck’s sake. Are you telling me Americans, of all people Americans, are now too stupid to kill?

    What’s with these crazy new execution methods? Just shoot the guy. It’s not like you didn’t have a hundred thousand cops trained to kill on sight.

    • ivanafterall
      100·
      9 months ago

      They’re not accustomed to shooting actual criminals.

      • tigeruppercut
        30·
        9 months ago

        Any state that allows this should force the governor to carry out the execution personally

    • captainlezbian
      20·
      9 months ago

      Because we’re uncomfortable with calmly and premeditatedly shooting someone. Capital punishment isn’t wildly popular here, it’s still controversial