• NateNate60@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        Back when hanging was a common method of execution in the US, sometimes the rope would break and the condemned would fall onto the ground. Some religious people argued that the rope breaking during a hanging was a sign of God’s mercy and the condemned should be spared, but in most cases they would just find a new rope and try again.

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          12 days ago

          Apparently if you give someone lethal injection in the U.S. they have over a 7% chance of having complications with it.

          So I guess it’s more likely probs lethal injections

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            11 days ago

            The problem with lethal injections is they use untrained or low trained prison guards to do the injections. If board certified anesthesiologists were doing it, it would be much more painless, and complications could be handled and responded to.

            Anesthesiologists don’t become executioners because they all swore to the Hippocratic oath.