That’s Horrific

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“A condemned Arizona inmate gasped and snorted for more than an hour and a half during his execution Wednesday before he died, his lawyers said, in an episode sure to add to the scrutiny surrounding the death penalty in the U.S.” Details here.

As much as it’s treated as sick or a joke, firing squad really would be a vastly more humane form of execution than the one we now have.

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