hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2hr ago
TIL Taylor Swift is right wing.
hydroacetylene
2hr ago
It's a classic high-low alliance. The outcasts and dregs of society will be kept outside and used as enforcers- a better deal than polite society usually gives them.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Because unlike Oklahoma, Tennessee has not defined statutorily that the use of nitrogen asphyxiation rather than veterinary medications is an accepted method of execution. Why this is is probably because Tennessee doesn't execute people very often and so never felt the need to change their method.
Most US executions are carried out in just a few states- Texas Georgia and Florida(the three big southern states), and Alabama and Oklahoma. Texas and Georgia have political reasons for being unable to change anything about their death penalty. Alabama, Florida, and Oklahoma have alternative methods enshrined in law.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Nitrogen asphyxiation is currently only used in Oklahoma. Lethal injection is the method used for most executions in the US and it's typically done with either a drug cocktail or an overdose using veterinary drugs.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
IIRC there's two methods of hanging, and the US used strangulation hanging which is genuinely inhumane. The commonwealth and many oriental countries use(d) long-drop, which is not inhumane.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Uh, renaissance painters were a bit, shall we say ... fruity... themselves, and may have been importing their own preferences into their art.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
There won't be liters upon liters of blood gushing out. There will be blood, yes, but most of it will remain inside his corpse- .308 rounds do not kill by exsanguination.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
The current system for the death penalty in the United States actually requires this baroque procedure- Gary Gilmore still had to go through a lengthy process.
It does this less about concern with executing innocent people and more because elite consensus is anti-death penalty but abolitionism is too unpopular to actually do in most of the country.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Apparently it's legally impossible to whip out a sidearm and blow her head off, since you can only kill people in the exact way and time that a judge finds pleasing. Otherwise it's something like murder, so that woman has to be rushed off to hospital to save her from the death she was supposed to suffer.
The relevant law is a state statute defining the method of execution. Utah has used a firing squad in the recent past(Utah has a low crime rate and population and does not execute very many people), because the state government chose to define that as a legal method of execution. It's not about 'cruel and unusual' it's 'compliance with state law about carrying out the death penalty'.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
Executions are generally attended to by a cleric of the condemned's faith, a journalist from the associated press, and a doctor as well as prison officials, right?
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
In the days when people had to kill their own meat, they prized it more. I can tell you that taking little kids hunting does not stop them from eating backstrap.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
US gun laws are written as a compromise between people who hate guns too much to know anything about them and people who just don't want the laws to work.
Specifically, the National Firearms Act put a tax stamp and registration requirement on a lengthy set of firearms categories on the basis of 'gangsters using them in the movies'. Over time that registration requirement became an odious six month process, because bureaucracy. Short barreled rifles/shotguns are also now unrestricted.
hydroacetylene
3hr ago
I doubt the Norwegian parliament is any bigger of a fan of Iran's leadership. These are not braindead American college liberals just because they're progressive and don't like republicans.
hydroacetylene
18hr ago
We don't know that.
Abolishing the death penalty has never passed a popular vote test. It's still unpopular, years after the fact, in many of the places where it's abolished. In all likelihood this guy will be shot and then slump over like a perfect shot on a deer, the 'unnecessary suffering' or 'cruel and unusual angle' just won't be possible to run with. People who watch looking for gore and brutality will come away disappointed, and the people will say eh, he's a bastard, at least they made it quick.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
For reference, those fifteen states are Alaska, Colorado, Michigan, Georgia, Minnesota, Connecticut, Mississippi, North Dakota, North Carolina, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin.
For those who don't know, a silencer does not work like in the movies. In real life, it takes the sound from 'permanent hearing damage' down to merely 'very loud'. The proximal effects of this law will be essentially nil; criminals will continue to mostly use nine mils that they hold incorrectly.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Harry potter and the second amendment is a meme for a reason.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
I haven’t read Harry Potter recently but it’s not like your best friend’s slightly younger sister having a crush on you is at all unrealistic. Is there an indication that she’s mostly after his fame?
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Isn’t the Harry Potter worldbuilding issue something that’s pretty easy to retcon with ‘the viewpoint character is a teenager’?
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Methods of execution are set by statute and at the moment Oklahoma allows nitrogen asphyxiation but Tennessee does not. Most executions in the US are carried out in states that allow only lethal injection- although that’s likely to change soon.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
internationally recognized nation state, only via terrorists and cartels
Red China has done it in the relatively recent past.
I am somewhat morbidly curious how this is going to be streamed. I can't imagine any of the existing platforms wanting anything like this anywhere near them,
The government might well have its own streaming platform for c-span or something. And there’s always streaming on X.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
Death penalty eligible criminals have the option to waive their final appeals and get it over with. Almost none of them take it.
I don’t think the death penalty is deterring, because it isn’t used often enough. But it’s sure not deterring in the other direction- the actual reality of execution is spending twenty years in a maximum security prison and then dying.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
But then why go for something as tame as a firing squad?
Federal law prescribes execution methods quite specifically(and for state executions normally this is also prescribed by statute)- the military is allowed to use firing squad, lethal injection, or the method of the state the military prison hes being held in is located in.
If Hasan specifically requested to be locked in the tiger cage at the San Francisco zoo, like many a dumb stoner, then the Supreme Court would likely rule that he has the right to pick his own manner of execution(they have repeatedly used this as an answer to cruel and unusual punishment claims in the past). But in the absence of that, hegseth is stuck deciding between a short, set list of methods.
hydroacetylene
22hr ago
I’m not planning on watching this. It will, if I’m not much mistaken, make us the only non-Muslim country to carry out a public execution this year, and I have no real interest in watching a 60 year old paraplegic die, no matter how bad he is.
Firing squad is an ipso facto normal thing to do here; military members who swore allegiance to a faction their country was at war with and opened fire on their comrades would be executed even in many countries that formally don’t have a death penalty. I don’t particularly like the public execution spectacle because execution is too rarely used to have a deterrent effect. Being executed in the United States isn’t a matter for common murderers; it requires aggravating factors. Making it less cruel is better, not more cruel, because there is no real deterrent effect- it’s a rare tail event.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It’s been a long time since I read Harry Potter, because I was in middle school the last time I read them.
But I don’t remember the characters being much like you’re describing. I remember Luna as being someone who was probably fairly moonbattish rather than a right wing Twitter enthusiast, although I suppose she’d be sharing schizo conspiracy theories(not racist ones in particular) there. Not crime stats. Malfoy came off as a true believer who got in over his head- and there were lots of those in the books. Mcgonnagal came off as a very serious career teacher. Etc, etc.
Strangulation hanging is the low tech version, it was superceded in the commonwealth with the development of long drop and then adopted by other modern users of hanging.
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