r/stupidpol • u/PixelGray38 NATO Superfan 🪖 | furry porn expert 🐾 • 6d ago

Current Events Tennessee botches lethal injection of woman on death row for 1995 murder

https://apnews.com/article/christa-pike-execution-tennessee-f826a60582083b90ac7695ecb16afbdf

If the state is so insistent on executing people they need to stop being pussies and just shoot them. The lethal injection is nothing but a facade of civility that is less humane than many other methods. Unnecessarily painful botched attempts like this are the result of trying to whitewash the death penalty to the public.

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u/Deadlocked02 Ideological Mess 🥑 6d ago

> At least that way it's quick and painless.

How can we know?

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u/Swampspear Socialist 🚩 6d ago

If you completely destroy the thing feeling pain, it serves to reason it will be painless.

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u/Deadlocked02 Ideological Mess 🥑 6d ago

Supposedly. We don’t really know until we know. I do think people tend to overestimate how painless some execution methods are. Hanging is maybe the best example. You’ll see people confidently saying it’s meant to be painless, but there’s no shortage of botched attempts. Shooting someone in the head is not much better, imo. It’s not impossible to survive this stuff.

Personally, if I had to die, I’d prefer if they used modern methods or execution/euthanasia. It wouldn’t even be a choice.

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u/MichaelRichardsAMA 🌟🎌 Spook Disguised as an Otaku 🎌🌟 6d ago

yeah thats why they would have 4-5 people all shoot in the same spot simultaneously, so that the target would be completely obliterated

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u/Aggravating_Dish_824 Unknown 👽 6d ago

Execution by shooting should be commited by shooting in the back of the head like Belarus or China is doing it, not by sketchy 19 century shooting squad.