Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method. The state said the method would be humane, as they have put dogs down with the method, but critics called it cruel and experimental.
Officials said Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was pronounced dead at 8 p.m. at an Alabama prison after breathing pure nitrogen gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation. It marked the first time that a new execution method has been used in the United States since lethal injection, now the most commonly used method, was introduced in 1982.
The execution took about 22 minutes from the time between the opening and closing of the curtains to the viewing room. Smith appeared to remain conscious for several minutes. For at least two minutes, he appeared to shake and writhe on the gurney, sometimes pulling against the restraints. That was followed by several minutes of heavy breathing, until breathing was no longer perceptible.
In a final statement, Smith said, “Tonight Alabama causes humanity to take a step backwards. ... I’m leaving with love, peace and light.”
He made the “I love you sign” with his hands toward family members who were witnesses. “Thank you for supporting me. Love, love all of you,” Smith said.
Smith was convicted of killing a preacher's wife, which is a real no no, as God don't like this.
https://apnews.com/article/nitrogen-execution-death-penalty-alabama-699896815486f019f804a8afb7032900
i wanna die with a smile on my face and HARD
i wanna die with a smile on my face and HARD Fri 26 Jan 2024 08:18:53 No. 1261093 Report Quoted By:
Here in Canada, with M.A.I.D.(medical assistance in dying), a dr will kill you, with this kind of gas if you ask, and then there's ingestion of sodium nitrite, and then the method I have chosen, a lethal injection of viagra, heroin, cocaine and glucose
Anonymous
>woman killer Not seeing a downside here.
Anonymous
What a hideous country America has become
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>>1261110 Not really, Dr. Kevorkian killed people like this 30 years ago in America and Europeans back then called him ahead of his time
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>>1261092 won't someone think of the poor murderers?
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>>1261092 oh no the poor convicted murderer
idk why we don't just do hangings and firing squads
Anonymous
Why are you downplaying his crime and playing up the events of his death?
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>>1261092 I don't trust the government to do executions, but why couldn't they just give him a shit ton of morphine?
Anonymous
>>1261142 Because DemoKKKrats are disingenuous lying turds who want violent criminals to roam free
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>>1261148 don't you have jailed rioters to cry about
Anonymous
Just think of it as an abortion. youll suddenly have no probs with murder.
Anonymous
>>1261155 But this guy was an actual human, not a fetus or a clump of cells.
Anonymous
>>1261157 >fetus isn't human Terminal leftoid brainrot
Anonymous
>>1261157 holy shit! Do you have a source!?! An animal formed without clumps of cells! Amazing! Please post your groundbreaking find!!
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>>1261158 Not human, just like you lmao
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>>1261107 I would have preferred him to kill a zoomer or aoomer girl in high school or middle school, since they're glued to their ipads watching retarded shit but someone will deal with them eventually
Anonymous
>>1261193 What's next you're gonna tell us that an acorn is a tree?
Anonymous
>>1261204 Is this that left wing intellectualism that I keep hearing about?
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Why are boomers such bootlicking sheep?
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>>1261221 Yeah facts and logic baby, try not to let them hurt your tiny retard brain
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>>1261355 Zoinks we’ve entered the chromozone now scoob
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I'm confused, didn't his lawyer ask for him to be killed this way? Why did he choose this way? Don't we normally kill people with some other horribly painful method?
Anonymous
>>1261355 >>1261221 If you were ordered to kidnap 50 humans for emperor xarblax, and came back with 30 people and 20 embryos, you would rightly and justly be whipped for your attempt to cheap xarblax on 20 humans.
Just like how when trading animals, a pregnant cow is not worth two cows. It is only worth slightly more than one cow.
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>>1261661 the law doesn't agree with you. a child in utero is recognized as a person under statute §919a.
Anonymous
>>1261676 the law seems to be incredibly fickle.
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>>1261677 application of the law, maybe. the law itself recognizes the unborn as people in no uncertain terms.
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>>1261678 pretending the law is some immutable god when we have god emperor xarblax to worship and adore. you shall be punished. retrieve for the god emperor 50 more humans
Anonymous
>>1261092 Eye for an eye, he should have been stabbed 45 times like he did to that poor woman in her home.
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>>1261678 I literally have been alive for the terms to change thrice in my lifetime.
You'll perish under xarblax.
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>>1261107 It was never proven that he killed the woman, he only let it happen.
Anonymous
Well, he requested nitrogen. I mean, according to the official narrative the convulsions were after loss of consciousness, which is what happens as a result of asphyxiation It may have looked unpleasant, but that's what happens when people die of asphyxiation, they lose consciousness and begin convulsing... Probably more uncomfortable for those watching than the person who dies. Personally, I would have just chosen lethal injection like everyone else does.
Stan the stabby stabber
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>>1261680 >he should have been stabbed 45 times Here's the knife, start stabbing.
>>1261706 >he requested nitrogen. No, He was a guinea pig.
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How can America be a first world country when no other first world country has the death penalty? The rest of us moved beyond the dark ages
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>>1261706 That's what happens when people die of too much CO2, not too little oxygen. Nitrogen is hazardous in confined spaces because you'll pass out instantly and painlessly in seconds, and so will the person trying to rescue you.
This story is borderline physically impossible.
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>>1261657 >Why did he choose this way he was a guinea pig.
he wanted lethal injection
republicans do this as they are as evil as the killers that they execute
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>>1261092 Why do we keep wasting tens of thousands of dollars (or more) on "clean" but clearly inhumane execution methods, when an instant, pain-free death by firing squad costs a total of:
- 2-3 bullets
- 3-5 blanks
- a half-day's salary for a handful of guards/police
- a half-day's salary for a janitor to clean the firing line
it's asinine
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>>1262044 i don't think a tank of nitrogen costs that much anon.
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>>1262044 I'd pick firing squad, or rope with a long drop. Of course we won't be given a choice
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>>1261155 >>1261158 Every time a woman has a period its a dead human? Every time you jack off into a toilet paper its 1,000,000 dead? DONT tell me its when the semen injects the cell when it starts... You were the one who brought it back to the fucking cells. Every night you blast your wad into your partially stiff sock you're on par with Hitler bruh. Get with it and repent.
Or realize that shit doesn't mean shit.