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Alabama condemned for nitrogen gas execution: ‘They intended to torture him’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Dr. Kevorkian invented an actually humane way of executing people (not that execution is humane, but)
it has three drugs, one to knock you unconscious, one to stop the heart and one to stop breathing...
suffocation is not going to be humane...
even with pure nitrogen, we have the ability to render people unconscious first...
which is what they'd do if they weren't trying to torture people.
The people who have that ability would rightly lose their license if they used that ability to facilitate an execution.
i don't think it's "rightly"
although execution is barbaric and should be outlawed; if you can't stop it, making it more humane is still moral.
Disagree. It is not and cannot be moral to take any part in an execution.
I agree with you. Imagine a country starts rounding up and murdering some ethnic/religious minority. Doctors shouldn't be like "ahh we must help the government kill them in the most humane way possible!" If anything that's enabling it.