The outrage over Alabama using the previously untested method of nitrogen gas to execute 58-year-old Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday night isn’t misplaced. The use of any human being as a “guinea pig” for a method of execution‚ in the words of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor‚ makes the blood boil.  But there’s a chance that the focus on Smith‚ whom Alabama tried and failed to kill in 2022‚ will distract attention from the much larger outrage: that our country is still pulling human...