Floustian - Michael Parenti Enthusiast

In Defiance of Death

the anesthetic apparently hasn't fully worn off yet

i know the focus on the exact method of capital punishment is kind of distracting from the main point which is that the state should not have the power to kill, and that focusing on the method only in fact serves the state as it tries to convince the people that as long as the method of killing is "peaceful" and "humane" then the killing itself can be just—that only the method can be considered cruel and unusual, not the fact of capital punishment itself. but it's still just so fucking infuriating to me that the state has fumbled lethal injections so bad because they can't acquire the drugs and they can't get doctors who are willing to do it properly (rightfully so), but instead of that forcing them to stop trying to kill, they're just inventing new ways of killing people. or going back to old ways of killing people. we're doing fucking execution by gas. five executions in six days. two today in different states, including one nitrogen asphyxiation (the second ever in the US). horrific.

HELLLLLL YEAH!!!!!!!