ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — As witnesses including five news reporters watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to die in the 1988 murder-for hire slaying of Elizabet…
I don’t know how to say this, but it’s kind of awesome that by refusing to die he fucked up their attempts at a non-traumatic execution. Seems like he refused to die without a fight and that fucked up the method. Maybe we shouldn’t fucking execute people? Especially if we’re uncomfortable with them raging against it with all their might.
They’ll develop methods to make the suffering less visible soon enough. They use paralytics in lethal injections not because it has any anesthetic effects (it doesn’t) but because it makes it easier for others to watch. They do give Midazolam though. Lest you give them any credit that’s the equivalent of taking a Tylenol for a bullet to the head.
I don’t know how to say this, but it’s kind of awesome that by refusing to die he fucked up their attempts at a non-traumatic execution. Seems like he refused to die without a fight and that fucked up the method. Maybe we shouldn’t fucking execute people? Especially if we’re uncomfortable with them raging against it with all their might.
They’ll develop methods to make the suffering less visible soon enough. They use paralytics in lethal injections not because it has any anesthetic effects (it doesn’t) but because it makes it easier for others to watch. They do give Midazolam though. Lest you give them any credit that’s the equivalent of taking a Tylenol for a bullet to the head.