Posted on 01/25/2024 7:41:37 PM PST by Morgana
Kenneth Eugene Smith has become the first person in history to be executed with nitrogen gas.
The convicted killer, 58, had a tight gas mask placed over his nose and mouth before a stream of 100 percent nitrogen gas suffocated him inside the execution chamber at the William C. Holman prison in Atmore, Alabama.
Smith was officially pronounced dead at 8:25 local time, following a 22-minute ordeal where he appeared to remain conscious for several minutes. He shook violently and pulled on the restraints on the gurney, continuing to breathe the nitrogen gas heavily until he succumbed and passed out.
In his final words, delivered through the gas mask on his face, Smith said: 'Tonight Alabama causes humanity to take a step backwards... I’m leaving with love, peace and light.'
He made an 'I love you sign' with his hands to his family in the witness box before he was strapped down, adding: 'Thank you for supporting me. Love, love all of you.'
He was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife in 1988, where he was paid just $1,000 for the hit.
Smith's pastor John Ewell told DailyMail.com before his execution that the killer was 'really struggling' with the reality of his imminent death, and officials said he barely touched his final meal of a T-bone steak, hashbrowns, eggs and A1 Sauce from Waffle House.
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There is just something wrong with the way these words are combined.
Too simple a procedure.
I like the way some other nations handle these matters. If convicted of a capital crime the perpetrator is sentenced with an automatic appeal. That’s a one time all encompassing appeal. If the perp loses that appeal then sentence is carried out almost immediately. This eliminates one of the biggest problems and costs to the system, endless appeals. Whether a state has a death sentence or not is up to the individual state, and the fed court system needs to stay out of it.
They use alcohol pads to clean the skin before a lethal injection needle is inserted.
And who’s to say he didn’t fake it?
How ironic and hypocritical for the MURDERER to complain about humanity.
He certainly wasn't concerned about it when HE took a life.
And I'm sure his victim felt that, too. Right??????
Sounds like the hemp rope and “Old sparky” are actually faster! Nothing in the Constitution says death should be totally stressless.
And not years after the crime.
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Or target practice for the family members of the victim......
I suggest injecting them with a Fauci Flu vaccine, then with “boosters” until they die ... which shouldn’t take too long. Although an added benefit of this highly effective method of execution would deplete the massive inventory of this potentially lethal material, some empty-headed judge would probably dismiss it as “cruel and (certainly) unusual punishment” ... a rationale that would have medical “experts” in a bit of a quandry.
Televised hangings in the town square.
I still don’t understand why they stopped using the lethal injection drugs.
About forty years ago I took a hit of 100% Nitrogen, things got very dark, very fast. That’s what makes nitrous oxide so dangerous, in its pure form it displaces oxygen. Fifty years ago in anesthesia it was possible for your patient to show up in recovery room perfectly pink and completely dead. Whether it’s pure nitrogen or a hypobaric chamber like they used to use for dogs, it’s very humane.
Without improperly including too many personal details, that account of your sister’s abandonment of the left’s evil might be worth recounting for us.
No, the entire thing was 22 minutes, he was dead in 10 minutes.
Why can't we simply follow G-d's laws?
A 45 hollow point to the head is a much more merciful death.
BAM!!! Lights out! Instant death with no pain.
Ironic...!
22 minutes to <1: small caliber bullet to back of skull.
I saw a nurse interviewed about the very thing that you’re talking about......a crying baby, put in a box and in a dark lonely room until death. If I’m not mistaken she became a voice for LIFE after seeing the horrors of abortion. God will punish these fiends that perpetuate this with a special kind of hell.
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