Alabama is set to perform the second-ever nitrogen gas execution in the United States on Thursday.
Alan Eugene Miller, 59, was sentenced to death for the 1999 murders of his then-coworkers Lee Holdbrooks and Christoper Scott Yancy, and his former supervisor Terry Lee Jarvis.
Miller was to be executed in September 2022 via lethal injection, but it was called off after officials had trouble inserting an intravenous line to administer the fatal drugs and were concerned they would not be able to do so before the death warrant expired.
The US death penalty is so bizarre.
“We desperately want to kill these probably-guilty people, we want it to appear humane while simultaneously lacking any humanity, and no one wants to be involved in any way because we acknowledge that it’s pretty much murder which is the crime we’re punishing these poor bastards for”
Other countries still doing this, which I don’t condone, at least own it. “We think these guys are scum and we’re going to end them by chopping their heads off. No you may not watch.”
And the Bible being a justification for state executions is such a horrible excuse.
We could justify all sorts of other wacky things with a messy collection of ancient tales.
Which part of the Bible allow that? Is it this “an eye for an eye” thing? And if yes, do those people referring to it also honor the other verses in Leviticus (i.e. not eat shrimp)?
No, and they’ll use the Bible to justify that too.
The key story for Christians is that a man was unjustly executed by religious authorities and the state even though he was without sin. This unjust sacrifice atones for all of humanities sin. So kinda hard to justify execution from a Christian perspective if you actually believe that stuff.
Or execution vans in China
Hell if someone who kills someone I love is sentenced to death…I’ll own that shit. Give me the axe, I’ll chop off the head myself.
Would that bring your loved one back?
Nope. But it would make me feel a whole lot better.