Comment on Why is Christa Pike from TN being kept alive after two failed execution attempts?
Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 day agoThose require a lot more dosage, and don’t kill quickly (which is what you want with an execution). Cops don’t want to give a valid use for these drugs either. Prisons do want to experiment with slowly replacing atmosphere in a sealed chamber with nitrogen, sorta like what they used to do with the gas chamber - but nobody’s tested this as an execution method and no state wants to be the one to fuck it up first.
RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean someone did test it.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 1 day ago
That was with Zyklon-B (hydrogen cyanide).
That isn’t a pleasant/humane way to go - people exposed to it suffer greatly before they die.