▲ 751 ▼ Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates (www.independent.co.uk) submitted 2 years ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/news@lemmy.world 581 comments fedilink hide all child comments “Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total.” Pretty compassionate way to kill a person. Once again, the Law in the south is brutal.
[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) you are conflating waterboarding with non consensual, but expected waterboarding. He isn't going to get out of it, but it's also not like he has no idea whats going to happen. How to deal with waterboarding? Don't breath. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago How to deal with waterboarding? Don’t breath. The people waterboarding you will just keep pouring water until you start breathing. permalink fedilink source parent [–] snooggums@kbin.social -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) you are conflating waterboarding with non consensual, but expected waterboarding. What? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago if you're a prisoner on death row, it's not exactly like you have zero advanced notice of whats going to happen. Given that bureaucracy exists, i think it might be prudent to say that you might even have ALL of the advanced notice one could possibly want in that scenario. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago How to deal with waterboarding? Don’t breath. The people waterboarding you will just keep pouring water until you start breathing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] snooggums@kbin.social -3 points 2 years ago (1 child) you are conflating waterboarding with non consensual, but expected waterboarding. What? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago if you're a prisoner on death row, it's not exactly like you have zero advanced notice of whats going to happen. Given that bureaucracy exists, i think it might be prudent to say that you might even have ALL of the advanced notice one could possibly want in that scenario. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 years ago if you're a prisoner on death row, it's not exactly like you have zero advanced notice of whats going to happen. Given that bureaucracy exists, i think it might be prudent to say that you might even have ALL of the advanced notice one could possibly want in that scenario. permalink fedilink source parent