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Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty (Austin Sarat, 2014)
Lethal Injections and the False Promise of Humane Executions (Austin Sarat, 2022)
A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays (Marc Bookman, 2021)
Discipline and Punish (Michel Foucault, 1975)
Report of the Commission to Investigate and Report the Most Humane and Practical Method of Carrying into Effect the Sentence of Death in Capital Cases (Gerry, Southwick, Hale 1888)
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How a New York Tabloid Captured the First Photo of an Execution by the Electric Chair (Robert Klara, 2023): www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-a-new-york-tabl…
So Long as They Die: Lethal Injections in the United States (Human Rights Watch, 2006): www.hrw.org/report/2006/04/23/so-long-they-die/let…
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The fact that methods of execution are considered "more barbaric" by how much it makes the people watching it uncomfortable instead of by how much the people being executed suffer is painfully ironic.
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When a pharmaceutical company says "we cannot ethically sell this to you", then you know you are doing something absolutely ungodly.
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"utopian punishment" - what a horrifyingly great sentence
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the biggest irony is the entire suggestion that it's possible to humanely kill another person
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In France, our school books usually state "Death penalty is nowadays only used in non-democratic countries, and the United-States of America"
And it's absolutely hilarious.
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Fun fact! If you are a US citizen and get jury duty, and you wind up part of the jury for a defendant in a capital-eligible crime, if you express at any point that you have moral issues with the death penalty, you will be kicked off the jury and replaced with someone who does! Just throwing that out there if it ever comes up for you, in case that's useful info
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I remember watching a documentary about exactly this question: What's the most humane way to execute someone?
They actually found one: nitrogen asphyxiation. By all accounts, it's not only painless, it's euphoric. It's one method used in euthanasia -- Sir Terry Pratchett chose that for his own death.
Then they tracked down a pro-death-penalty lobbyist to get his reaction. "That's horrible!" he said.
It turned out that the people who want the death penalty aren't just apathetic about making it humane. They want the death penalty precisely because it's barbaric.
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40:35 I laughed out loud here. "Gosh, if we accept the claim that this is injustice, then the entire justice system can be called into question." There's a categorical obliviousness to this reasoning.
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I remember learning about lethal injection, and when I got to the drugs used, my immediate question was... "Wait, what's the paralytic for if the first drug puts them to sleep? That doesn't make any sense."
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Being only paralyzed while still fully conscious and feeling everything is such a horrible thought. It is literally the perfect example of “I have no mouth, and I must scream”. Absolutely brutal…
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I've never been able to square "humane" with "non-violent." People always talk like it's for the sake of not being cruel or causing unnecessary suffering, but things like the guillotine and the firing squad, while violent, are less prone to error and more effective in ending life quickly and efficiently. It's almost like the motivation isn't about being kind or humane, but a squeamishness to confront the enormity of what is actually being done. It's about self-deception, not kindness. They want to kill people, but are so frightened to actually be seen as killers.
Personally, I am opposed to the death penalty, but I think if you're going to advocate for it, you should insist on something that is brutal and efficient. The guillotine, the firing squad. Not cruel, but still violent. Not neat and sanitized, but swift. If you're going to end a life, you owe it to yourself not to dress it up and pretend you're being gentle and kind. You're not. There should be blood. Not a spectacle, just a grim reminder that what you are doing is killing. You're not gently rocking someone to sleep, no matter how much you pretend you are. You are killing a person. I'm tired of these people pretending it's not.
It strikes me as cowardice that these people are so bloodthirsty, and yet so terrified to actually shed any.
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Being unable to convey my agony because I’m paralyzed, muted, or otherwise stifled is one of my greatest fears.
I once heard a story - can’t remember where from - of a man who had a stroke on a sunny day and fell on his back paralyzed. Passersby were thankfully able to do CPR and keep him alive, but because he was paralyzed, unable to close his eyes or speak, his staring at the bright sunny sky turned him blind. I imagine him laying there, feeling his retinas slowly burning and crying in his mind for the people to close or cover his eyes but unable to say anything as he slowly but surely and helplessly lost his vision.
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15 years ago, a pro-death penalty British politician, Michael Portillo, featured in a documentary where he was seeking the "perfect" method of execution. And he thought he'd found it - inert gas asphyxiation. Flood a chamber with nitrogen, the person would become euphoric, fall unconscious, and die within a short time without pain. Portillo then presented this to an advocate of the death penalty from the US, Robert Blecker, who thought that it was "horrific". Blecker wanted the person being executed to suffer before they died. This seemed to shock Portillo ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9YgWXKAwNY )
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This juxtaposed against reading about a lawsuit filed YESTERDAY on behalf of an Indiana Man, who was essentially tortured by State Police for 20 days in solitary confinement leading to massive rapid weight loss and death from malnutrition and dehydration after he had not been charged with a crime, truly highlights the desire to hide the brutality of the Carceral System.
That the brutality is at every stage and they just want you to ignore it all and be blissfully unaware while the system squeezes blood from the stone
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What’s also really sad about the Joe Nathan James case is that the victim’s family actually protested against the execution. They tried to appeal it and spoke out against it several times, but were denied.
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Entire scientific community: The electric chair is not what you claim it is and almost always leads to botched executions that cause immense suffering and can actually be very messy.
The American judicial system: No
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Jacob - "How do you think an iron maiden worked?"
Me, laying in bed covered in Dorito dust, slightly out of breath from sitting up out of interest - "Fuck me Jacob I dunno"
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This is the longest Fallout: New Vegas dialogue interaction I've ever had. Complete with the long closeup of Jacob and his stationary hand gestures.
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Ironically enough, there's a method of execution from the barbaric medieval era that is probably a lot less barbaric and painful (both physically and psychologically) than most of these supposedly modern methods. Namely, execution by the sword.
The 'humane' method was like a bit of theatre.
When the victim was brought onto the stage, the executioner and a servant would greet them unarmed, the sword hidden from view in a basket or cabinet. The executioner would greet the condemned, ask their forgiveness, and then he would ask the servant to go fetch his sword. The servant would then leave the stage and go off in some other direction, and when the victim watched the servant go, the executioner would quietly retrieve his sword and kill them by decapitation.
The idea was to spare the victim from the mental anguish of anticipating their death approaching, the little bit of theatre with the servant and hidden sword to give some comfort in the idea that they still had some time before their death was going to come.
In isolation this doesn't really seem very humane either, it's still an execution after all, but when comparing it to hours of being strapped into a chair with belts, with a helmet and electricity or needles and chemicals, I know what I'd rather go through.
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