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BREAKING NEWSHistoric first nitrogen gas execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith took 22 MINUTES and murderer 'writhed and shook' for two minutes while 'pulling against the restraints': Last words declared method 'a step back for humanity'
Daily Mail UK ^ | January 25, 2024 | Will Potter

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: DesertRhino
... stabbed her eight times with a survival knife.”

There is just something wrong with the way these words are combined.

101 posted on 01/26/2024 4:45:55 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: whitney69
Why not do the same to criminals?

Too simple a procedure.

102 posted on 01/26/2024 4:47:21 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mr. Mojo

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.


103 posted on 01/26/2024 4:48:43 AM PST by Rlsau1
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To: Does so

They use alcohol pads to clean the skin before a lethal injection needle is inserted.


104 posted on 01/26/2024 4:52:39 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: high info voter

And who’s to say he didn’t fake it?


105 posted on 01/26/2024 5:00:30 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: chopperk
How long did it take for Smith to kill a victim?

How ironic and hypocritical for the MURDERER to complain about humanity.

He certainly wasn't concerned about it when HE took a life.

106 posted on 01/26/2024 5:01:42 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Morgana
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.'

And I'm sure his victim felt that, too. Right??????

107 posted on 01/26/2024 5:03:04 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: Morgana

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.


108 posted on 01/26/2024 6:59:35 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Bobbyvotes

Or target practice for the family members of the victim......


109 posted on 01/26/2024 7:01:25 AM PST by 1217Chic
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To: EEGator

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.


110 posted on 01/26/2024 7:08:50 AM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: Morgana

Televised hangings in the town square.


111 posted on 01/26/2024 7:12:50 AM PST by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: Morgana

I still don’t understand why they stopped using the lethal injection drugs.


112 posted on 01/26/2024 7:32:06 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Paleo Conservative

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.


113 posted on 01/26/2024 7:36:38 AM PST by Babba Gi
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

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.


114 posted on 01/26/2024 7:41:09 AM PST by KC Burke
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To: Morgana
It took him 22 minutes to die.

No, the entire thing was 22 minutes, he was dead in 10 minutes.

115 posted on 01/26/2024 7:42:14 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Morgana
According to Noahide Halakhah, the only capital punishment allowed to non-Jewish governments is "death by the sword." This means beheading, but hanging also fulfills the requirement.

Why can't we simply follow G-d's laws?

116 posted on 01/26/2024 7:55:19 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (בראשית ברא אלקים את השמים ואת הארץ)
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To: Morgana

A 45 hollow point to the head is a much more merciful death.

BAM!!! Lights out! Instant death with no pain.


117 posted on 01/26/2024 8:49:25 AM PST by Uncle Lonny
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To: Elsie

Ironic...!


118 posted on 01/26/2024 8:52:19 AM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦..."Christian-Nationalists" won WWII...Biden NOT NEXT DNC nominee!)
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To: Morgana

22 minutes to <1: small caliber bullet to back of skull.


119 posted on 01/26/2024 8:53:35 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: Morgana

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.


120 posted on 01/26/2024 10:38:48 AM PST by Dawgreg
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