[2/5] … penalty on principle, regardless of the method used, I am always puzzled by the fuss that people make about those details. I'm especially puzzled by the question of whether the person being executed feels pain during the process. Does it presume that temporary pain is worse than death? Imagine that you are in Gaza and you are wounded. You may be lucky enough to find a surgeon but there will be no anesthetic available. Would you say, "Please don't operate, just kill me"? You might, I …

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the Guardian

Three top nitrogen gas manufacturers in US bar products from use in executions

Move follows Alabama’s recent killing of death row inmate Kenneth Smith using previously untested method

2011: July - October Political Notes - Richard Stallman

2016: March - June Political Notes - Richard Stallman

Now that some US states are using, or may use, nitrogen gas for executions, there is a campaign to block that method by restricting what the buyers of medical nitrogen can use it for. As one who opposes the death …

the Guardian

Navalny ally Leonid Volkov vows to continue fight against Putin after hammer attack in Vilnius

‘We will not give up,’ Volkov says in video after being discharged from hospital following attack in Lithuania that left him covered in blood

One of Navalny's associates, living in Lithuania, was attacked while in his car and badly injured. I expect this to firm up European determination to defeat Putin. But what did Putin hope to achieve? How could this benefit him?

the Guardian

Minister consulted BP over incentives to maximise oil production, FoI reveals

Exclusive: Meeting took place days after BP reported record profits while households were squeezed by high energy bills

Minister consulted BP over ‘right incentives to maximise’ oil production, FoI reveals.