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1. marlin (marlin@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 00:20:44 JST marlin

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   • mullvad
   • flux_the_cat (too cool for soundcloud)

   @flux_the_cat @Shlomo The application of "cruel and unusual punishment" to death penalty is weird. It has become a pseudo-medical procedure, sanitized of its gravity. You're taking a life, not pulling a tooth, treat it as such. Whether the point of death penalty is punishment or deterrence, it needs to maintain some semblance of an execution.

   • Vril (vril_oreilly@comfyboy.club)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 00:20:44 JST Vril

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     • mullvad
     • flux_the_cat (too cool for soundcloud)
     @marlin @Shlomo @flux_the_cat in Utah they still do firing squad. That's the way I'd like to go if I had to pick. Seems the most noble way, also you get to scar like 8 people in the process
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   • flux_the_cat (too cool for soundcloud) (flux_the_cat@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 00:20:45 JST flux_the_cat (too cool for soundcloud)

     • mullvad
     i was wondering about this when i first saw this in the news yesterday. i was thinking to myself "surely they don't actually believe this would be a painless and humane method of execution" but maybe that was the point. you're basically slowly drowning a person to death with this method. it's actually MORE grisly and cruel than pretty much any other method of execution in modern history.
     
     personally i would advocate a return to some of the more traditional and reliable methods of execution like hanging or firing squads. this notion that executions need to be somehow inoffensive to people with fragile constitutions is quite silly to be frank, and that leads directly to stupid stunts like this.
     
     killing criminals has always been a messy business. that's never going to change.
     
     RT: https://poa.st/objects/f69ddf27-324a-4c63-97b6-1ee4462b8df9