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Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Sorry. I can't emphasize with criminals. It's impossible for me. The only thing that is weird to me is why on earth you took almost 40 years to execute a prisoner? It doesn't make sense. And other thing. I hope all the 4 criminals get the same punishment as well. It looks like the idiot paid the most.
Oh and other thing for all the softy snowflakes. Let's hope your mom, sister, granny, father, brother, never get killed. It's way too easy to talk from your comfortable positions.
Thank God people are never wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death.
[It's this one in particular](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arridy#:~:text=Joseph%20Arridy%20(%2F%CB%88%C3%A6r%C9%AA,due%20to%20his%20mental%20incapacities.) that really got me.
That says more about you than about the criminals. They are still human beings. Also, we’re supposed to be better than them.
Disagree that rapists are human.
Agree that the only way to make the world better is to not stoop to someone else's level.
Would add that protecting the wrongly accused is more important than getting rid of the guilty.
Most sane people can't empathize with (violent) criminals. But I can empathize with the wrongfully convicted. As distasteful as it is to let murderers and rapists drag out their drain on society, it's infinitely preferable to executing an innocent person.
Did something happen to you? Like was your mom, sister, granny, father, and/or brother killed?
Too that shit to those that were executed whilst innocent