#this method bugs me

[beardedmrbean]

The state of Alabama is seeking to execute a second inmate using nitrogen gas just weeks after becoming the first in the nation to use the controversial method.

The state's attorney general asked Alabama's Supreme Court to set an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller, who has been on death row since 2000.

He was convicted of killing three people in a workplace shooting.

The UN has condemned the nitrogen gas method as cruel.

In January, the state executed another inmate, Kenneth Eugene Smith, with nitrogen gas. According to reporters at the execution, Smith thrashed violently on the gurney before being pronounced dead 25 minutes later.

While advocates have opposed the method, the state argued it was "effective and humane" and says Miller, 59, will be executed the same way.

Miller was convicted of killing three people - Terry Jarvis, Lee Holdbrooks and Scott Yancy - in 1999 during workplace shootings in Birmingham, Alabama.

"It is once more the appropriate time for the execution of his sentence," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said in a statement.

Miller survived a previous execution attempt by lethal injection in September 2022 as it was called off when it could not be completed by a midnight deadline.

Following the failed attempt, Miller filed a federal lawsuit that alleges prison staff, trying to find a vein, poked him with needles for over an hour and left him at one point hanging vertically as he lay strapped to a gurney.

In November 2022, the state agreed it would not use lethal injection in his execution but instead nitrogen gas.

Ahead of Kenneth Eugene Smith's January execution, the UN, the EU and anti-death penalty activists condemned the use of nitrogen gas for the death penalty. Smith was convicted in 1989 of murdering a preacher's wife, Elizabeth Sennett, in a killing-for-hire.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said he had "serious concerns this novel and untested method of suffocation by nitrogen gas may amount to torture, or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment".

Inhaling pure nitrogen gas cuts off the oxygen supply to the brain. The procedure had never been used before in an execution, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Besides Alabama, only two other states - Oklahoma and Mississippi - permit execution by nitrogen gas.

Those states approved the use of nitrogen hypoxia as an alternative method of execution because the drugs used in lethal injections have become more difficult to find, contributing to a fall in the use of the death penalty nationally.

[captainsavre]

All Marina Scenes || 4.06 Train in Vain 1/4

[hana-bobo-finch]

DOOM POSTING CANCELED

DAGGER MOTH I THINK. I’m FREAKING THE FUCK OUT OHHHHHH

[cuppajj]

Stupid silly question, do you take art commissions by chance?

No, but I want to in the future! I might test the water with something small like icon or sketch commissions, and then jump into being open to full pics when I have time

[scissorcraft]

i really want to make isat friends…

[muirneach]

hockey gloves are sooo much fun to draw its like 10 squares stacked on top of each other

[non-un-topo]

Man, writing is time-consuming. One day you're doing a little surface-level research, three days later you're looking up how to make a scale model of a colonial settlement

[desertduality]

I’m really sorry this next chapter is taking so long guys aksjjsj I’m going on a trip next week but when I get back I’ll be able to work on it :]

[elephantbitterhead]

More stellar canning advice from the UK: "Your rowan jam will keep for up to a year in a cool cupboard and like all jams once opened should be stored in the fridge and used up within a month. Please Note – We do not usually do water bath or other canning methods here in the UK. Our preserves keep perfectly well without this."

Just as their cats are uniquely able to dodge cars & mean children and so must run free, their insects uniquely disinterested in entering open windows and thus no need for window screens, so too are their jams uniquely impervious to spoilage and thus require no proper canning. I wish I could think that this person was an outlier, but unfortunately this is the state of food preservation in this country. There's a lot of similar advice in Germany as well, though I don't know about the rest of Europe.

[palin-tropos]

“Children have a natural grasp of the dialectical method; whether it arises from obstinacy or playfulness, the sudden declaration of “Opposite Day”, and an insistence that thenceforth all immediate paradigms must be turned on their head, is a common rhetorical device found on playgrounds or in classrooms…”

- Ignus Nilsen, A Guide to Raising Revolutionary Children

[the-rogue-mockingjay]

having a tremendously bad time with the "I'm useless and my friends think I'm annoying and dumb" thoughts today, so on all levels except physical I am scooping my brain out of my head with an ice cream scooper and dropping it in the trash and then going about my day

[oasisofgalaxies]

The strange and alien can be found amongst the mundane and small. Little wonders can be found everywhere.

[bare1ythere]

Im so frustrated trying to learn kanji literally nothing I've tried gets it to stick in my head

[justabunchofcrowsinatrenchcoat]

My daughter invented a new version of, "Would you still love me if I was a worm?", this morning. Fresh out of bed with sleep still in her eyes, she asks, "If I was a little mouse, would you flush me down the toilet and get rid of me?" To which I reply, no, of course not. She then asks, voice filled with wonder, "You'd still love me??" Yes, of course, I say. "Thank you!" She cheers with a big hug.

[prettyinslaughter]

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[lightkidshenannies]

insert rant about the devs only caring about discord here