On Final Week Tonight, John Oliver did an up to date episode on the dying penalty within the US the place he completely summed up what’s fallacious with red-state Republicans in Alabama.
Oliver mentioned:
And early this yr, Alabama carried out the very first nitrogen fuel execution, which was, by all accounts, completely horrific. One witness described the person who died as somebody struggling for his or her life. And one other who’d seen 5 executions mentioned it was undoubtedly essentially the most violent execution that I’ve ever witnessed.”
All of which makes it fairly galling that afterward the state’s AG took this victory lap whereas thanking his complete execution staff. ‘Everyone in this room knows they are the first team in the country to carry out nitrogen execution. And what occurred last night was textbook. They deserve a great deal of thanks and credit for being willing to be the one to step up first in the country to do so, and I now suspect that many states will follow. As of last night, nitrogen epoxy as a means of execution is no longer an untested method. It is a proven one.’
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Yeah, he referred to as it a textbook execution, which I’d name textbook bullshit. And by the best way, Alabama, do you ever get bored with being trailblazers in all the worst methods? Your state historical past is simply courageous Alabama residents protesting as your leaders are the final to do one thing good or the primary to do one thing horrible.
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From Oliver and his staff placing collectively proof that implies that states and the Trump administration have been acquiring the medicine utilized in executions from a manufacturing unit that’s illegally making them to discussing the barbaric ways in which the US continues to insist on executing criminals, this episode was a worthy comply with as much as the 2 that Final Week Tonight has beforehand performed on the subject.
It’s a disgrace that Warner Brothers/Discovery has adopted the idiotic coverage of not posting Final Week Tonight clips till Thursday as a result of John Oliver’s newest episode actually is a matter of life and dying.
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