Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in nitrogen gas execution: Updates
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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.

  • Heresy_generator@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.