Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates
Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates
Witness Reverend Jeff Hood told reporters he saw a man ‘struggling for their life’ for 22 minutes as Smith became the first US death row inmate executed by nitrogen asphyxia
“Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total.”
Pretty compassionate way to kill a person.
Once again, the Law in the south is brutal.
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The simplest explanation for what went wrong here is that Kenny's religious advisor is lying and we need to ask a neutral observer what actually happened.
No, the simplest explanation is that Alabama is filed with fucktards who didn't research the correct way to perform this task. They used a mask instead of a hood. Also, this same guy (and another guy last year) SURVIVED lethal injection in Alabama because they fucked it up. It took Alabama 5 hours to try killing him with lethal injection last year, and they STILL failed. What makes you think Alabama started a first of its kind process in the US and used it successfully?
I think you're putting too much emphasis on the geography here, this is just the nature of execution in America, it's what happens when medical personnel aren't involved, you end up with a flawed system, which it always has been. There were botched hangings there were botched electrocutions, there have been botched lethal injections all over the country, this is more an issue with capital punishment than it is location.
That's actually a much more complicated explanation.
Wait, you think a religious advisor lying is more likely than people who were incompetent three times last year on a well established procedure being incompetent on a brand new procedure?
Yes, that's why I said that we need a report from someone with no skin in the game.
But I pretty much assume that religious advisors are always lying.