Nine months after Kenneth Smith’s botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen

    • derf82@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      15
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s not experimentation. People have already died, even accidentally, from inert gas asphyxiation.

      • PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        If we didn’t study it for this purpose in human subjects before him, it’s experimentation. Reproducing something that has occurred organically in a new context is absolutely experimentation. I don’t know how I can make this simpler.