This governor actually approved the attempted execution before it happened, her lawyers were appealing it and he personally said he agreed with the original sentencing and forced it to happen anyway. The only reason he is stopping it now is because they fucked it up and couldn't successfully murder her and it would have been too scandalous to let them keep trying and failing to kill her

Fucking western "journalists". I know lying in service of capital is the job but they used to at least pretend it wasn't.

It's not even a rare occurrence, and the whole "painlessness" of it is controversial at best, it's just that they paralyze the recipient first so there's no way to tell.

Just a few months ago, also in Tennessee.

That's what they used to do with hangings in England iirc, I believe if you survived the hanging you just had your sentence commuted to transportation to Australia

Edit: there were also cases of people being let got after surviving execution attempts, usually failed hangings. Sometimes the justification was religious ("clearly God doesn't want them hanged, who are we to argue?") and other times it was legalistic ("well they were sentenced to hang so I guess the sentence was already carried out, let 'em go boys")

idk what kind of condition she's in, death might be more preferable. It's so fucked up and tragic.

I guess it's the cruelty is the point kind of deal

delays and appeals. could just not execute people because the country was pretty stable but noooo

pokemon was released in 1996

If you want to do nested spoilers, only the actual end of the spoiler should have :::

Right now you have spoiler and then immediately after :::, which ends the first spoiler warning. It should look more like

Psychiatrists said that lethal injection would likely mean that she'd spend her last moments feeling like she was being

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Well, yeah.

She apparently requested firing squad or hanging multiple times

it feels like a money thing, like an excuse one time was "well we dont want the drugs going to waste!"

Jacob Geller

Not related to your point (I've seen that video as well) but credible SA allegations have surfaced against him in the last 24 hours or so

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

• yewtu.be
• inv.nadeko.net
• yt.artemislena.eu
• piped.video