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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Says his religious advisor, who is against the death penalty.
I'm not sure what you think that has been added here.
But a 22 minute execution is torture.
I am against both the death penalty and torture.
22 minutes of drifting slowly off to sleep isn’t torture.
Yes, I too, can be described as ‘struggling for my life’ while peacefully drifting off to sleep….
And as I said, you are listening to a very biased witness.
How do you know that he drifted slowly off to sleep though?
They don't. They're just an asshole on the Internet.
Were you there? You haven't shared your 1st hand witness account.
And one of the reporters who was there:
One of the five members of the media transported to Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore to witness the execution told the BBC it was unlike any other he'd witnessed in Alabama.
"I've been to four previous executions and I've never seen a condemned inmate thrash in the way that Kenneth Smith reacted to the nitrogen gas," Lee Hedgepeth told the BBC's Newsday programme.
"Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total."
Has anyone offered an account that contradicts this? Because I know the state of Alabama didn't.