Kenneth Smith, 58, is facing execution by an untested method that has never before been used in capital punishment in the US. It’s a technique that has been rejected on ethical grounds by veterinarians for the euthanasia of most animals other than pigs: death by nitrogen gas.
Okay so this article, and the one it links back to, make much of the "rejected by veterinarians" line, but it's incredibly unclear as to why. Carbon dioxide would be an awful way to go, but I don't understand why, of someone is going to be killed (and not just killed but having their pattern erased when it could be preserved, known time of death in a controlled facility is a best case for cryo), nitrogen hypoxia is considered bad instead of a best option. Can someone explain this? As I understand it your get giddy and happy, then pass out, then die. Why is that unethical, if you've already decided the killing is ethical?
Three years after supporters of Donald Trump violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the future of the criminal cases against the rioters may hinge on the presidential election.
There is an authoritarian danger that threatens American democracy. It is a separate peril from Donald Trump and his tens of millions of rabid supports. It is the right-wing infrastructure that is publicly plotting to undermine the checks and balances of our constitutional order and concentrate unprecedented power in the...
Right, and you're just going to completely ignore that they made that opening remain open until their guy could nominate the judge they wanted because of a rule they made up that they completely trashed a few years later. Yeah okay.
Also who exactly is talking about adding seats? Citations needed.
Huh, not one single person with any power to do anything. Why exactly should I care, when the people who could do something have repeatedly and explicitly said they ain't gonna?
Here’s the scary thing that ensures this rhetoric will only escalate: By labeling his multiple indictments “election interference” (the very crime of which he is charged by both federal and state prosecutors), Trump has now made his “rigged election” claim for 2024 well over a year in advance. If and when he loses the...
There are a lot of people I don't agree with, some I find downright obnoxious, and the last thing I'd choose to spend my limited time on this earth doing is finding them and telling them why I dislike them. Is there truly nothing better for you, no positivity you can bring to people or things that you do like, that would be a better use of your time than... This?
You aren't punishing your hated foes. You are sticking it to them, you aren't, in fact accomplishing anything. Is reddit truly so pristine and flawless that there is no possible use of your time that could make it better, rather than the shouting into the void you are meaninglessly doing here?
Because, if not... That's awfully sad. Kid with progeria breaking his ribs catching a nerf football sad. Your dad ran over your cat level sad. I am begging you, for the sake of what I am going to call your soul without intending any supernatural implications: find something actually worthwhile to do with your life.
What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? ( i.redd.it )
Panera Bread exempt from following California’s new $20 minimum wage law due to relationship with Gov. Newsom: reports ( www.yahoo.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12541208...
‘I’m not ready, brother’: US man to be put to death months after botched execution attempt ( www.theguardian.com )
Kenneth Smith, 58, is facing execution by an untested method that has never before been used in capital punishment in the US. It’s a technique that has been rejected on ethical grounds by veterinarians for the euthanasia of most animals other than pigs: death by nitrogen gas.
The Trump campaign embraces Jan. 6 rioters with money and pardon promises ( www.npr.org )
Three years after supporters of Donald Trump violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the future of the criminal cases against the rioters may hinge on the presidential election.
How right-wing groups are plotting to implement Trump's authoritarianism ( www.motherjones.com )
There is an authoritarian danger that threatens American democracy. It is a separate peril from Donald Trump and his tens of millions of rabid supports. It is the right-wing infrastructure that is publicly plotting to undermine the checks and balances of our constitutional order and concentrate unprecedented power in the...
Palin’s Civil War Threat a Sign of Very Bad Things to Come ( nymag.com )
Here’s the scary thing that ensures this rhetoric will only escalate: By labeling his multiple indictments “election interference” (the very crime of which he is charged by both federal and state prosecutors), Trump has now made his “rigged election” claim for 2024 well over a year in advance. If and when he loses the...
Tf happened to lemmy.world? ( kbin.social )
Went there and got some… less than savory images. Do not recommend going there....