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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I find it quite interesting that we can provide someone with a calm and peaceful death, but prisons in many countries can't do any better than "ouch that looks pretty terrible" to "oh my god that's torturous!"... Nevermind the morals around whether the state should kill someone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

It’s humanity theater, it’s intentionally awful as a deterrent.