Alabama carries out first nitrogen gas execution in US after Supreme Court green light • FRANCE 24

There is nothing pretty about an execution with his family and that of his victim watching it took the state of Alabama over 20 minutes to put Kenneth Eugene Smith to death it was the state’s second attempt to end the convicted murderer’s life in 2022 his death by lethal injection was aborted after

Officials spent hours trying to place an intravenous line for lethal injection this time the state used a new method of capital punishment one that never been tested before asphixiation by nitrogen gas some involuntary movement and some agonal breathing so uh that was all expected Smith’s spiritual advisor though painted a more gruesome picture

We saw minutes of someone heaving back and forth we saw spit we saw all sorts of stuff from his mouth Alabama says the gas is the most painless and Humane method of capital punishment it also provides the state with a solution against lethal injection drug shortages but experts at the UN Human Rights

Council and others have warned it could be torture even the US Supreme Court weighed in it dismissed a last minute legal plea to block the execution but in her descent Justice Sonia Soder said that Alabama was subjecting Smith to an unconstitutional risk of pain having failed to kill Smith on its first

Attempt Alabama has selected him as it guinea pig to test a method of execution never attempted before the world is watching in 1988 Kenneth Smith and another man killed 45-year-old Elizabeth Senate the men had been hired by her husband a preacher and were paid $11,000 each convicted to life in prison by a

Jury a judge overruled that and he sentenced Smith to death

The southern US state of Alabama on Thursday put to death a convicted murderer using nitrogen gas, the first time the country has used a method that the UN rights chief said may amount to torture.
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2 comments

  1. These do gooder campaigners werent there to witness the death of the woman he killed were they. Far more violently. No death is 'pretty', what a weird thing to say.

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