I don’t know if you’ve given a lot of thought to who it is that actually, practically, handles executions. In Alabama, it’s a small team of guards that *votes* on bringing in new members to their team. And court records show a mountain of really violent accusations against them:
As the state keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation into its execution team raises questions about how incarcerated people are treated in their final moments.
Camus's Reflections on the Guillotine treats this very well. The death penalty debases all those involved in it.
Even the states that mandate a qualified "IV Team" often drop the standards to only an asterisk above the minimum. open.substack.com/pub/medicine...
The protocols, the providers, and the patients make for the worst mix imaginable.
Well it’s that or the local church group. And nobody trusts them.
Unpossible this would happen in a state a clearly antibarbaric as Alabama.
how is this shit possible in the USA? Did you see that LA Sheriff's had to make a rule that deputies can't join sheriff gangs?
As a resident is AL, I say that the state has worked diligently to become a pariah, but there have been few consequences. Maybe it's time there were. The Feds have been threatening to take over our prison system for years. Do it.
Thank you for publishing this. I was doing a quick prelim search yesterday and struggling to find any reliable info.
My god. I mean, that is so distressing.
at least there's not a literal organ harvesting operation stealing body parts from dead inmates in alabama too. oh wait there is