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submitted 5 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/usnews@beehaw.org

Kenneth Smith, 58, is facing execution by an untested method that has never before been used in capital punishment in the US. It’s a technique that has been rejected on ethical grounds by veterinarians for the euthanasia of most animals other than pigs: death by nitrogen gas.

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[-] sanguine_artichoke@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

I guess I'd heard of that. What is the objection of American pharma companies? It must be liability vs. ethics as they're totally glad to maim and kill people daily as long as it's profitable.

[-] MrCookieRespect@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago

They don't have the patents for the stuff, European companies hold those parents for the most part... So either don't supply the prisons with the stuff or get the license taken away completely...

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