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ACLU
@aclu.org

Louisiana is set to execute Jessie Hoffman by nitrogen gas unless the Supreme Court steps in. This method is not only torturous — it would violate Jessie's religious freedom to perform his Buddhist breathing meditation as he suffocates.

usatoday.comIs nitrogen execution too 'gruesome' and 'cruel?' Louisiana is about to find outA court in Louisiana ruled Jessie Hoffman can be put to death Tuesday using nitrogen hypoxia - deprivation of oxygen causing suffocation.

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Pollik
@pollik.bsky.social

Why do they always use painful way to execute? The least painful way, it seems to me, would be to put them to sleep (as for surgery) first. Rhetorical question, really...it is about cruelty.

Enn
@hugofroyo.bsky.social

In order to anaesthetise people, you need protocols designed by qualified people, and qualified people performing them. The death penalty has neither. And also the manufacturers of the preferred drugs will not supply them for this purpose, which has added to the rates of botched lethal injections.

Halley
@royalhenoil.bsky.social

I've never understood this, either. We euthanize thousands of pets every day, and voluntary euthanasia of people with terminal illness is practiced around the world. We know exactly how to execute quickly, cheaply, easily, and completely painless. So why don't we?