Posted on 11/02/2023 4:33:26 PM PDT by Libloather
Alabama's Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the state to execute an inmate using nitrogen gas.
The state's attorney general’s request for an execution warrant for Kenneth Eugene Smith was granted in a 6-2 decision by an all-Republican court.
Last year, the Alabama Department of Corrections called off the execution of Smith when the people responsible for connecting two intravenous lines to him for lethal injection could not do so.
While the ruling moves the state closer to becoming the first to attempt execution with nitrogen gas, there is likely to be additional legal dispute on the matter. Alabama joins Oklahoma and Mississippi with authorization to use nitrogen hypoxia as a form of execution, although no state has yet attempted to use it.
Smith was one of two men convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett in Alabama's Colbert County.
"Elizabeth Sennett's family has waited an unconscionable 35 years to see justice served. Today, the Alabama Supreme Court cleared the way for Kenneth Eugene Smith to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall wrote. "Though the wait has been far too long, I am grateful that our capital litigators have nearly gotten this case to the finish line."
Smith's legal team had urged the court to reject the execution request. They also previously accused the state of trying to move Smith to "the front of the line" for a nitrogen execution in order to moot Smith’s lawsuit challenging lethal injection procedures.
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Semi off-topic: Is Nitrogen really good for tires?
Nitrogen is great for beer.
Good! No repeat offenders!
That can be done with any gas. Just exclude oxygen and any gas will work.
Good, how? They’re filled with about 80% nitrogen, regardless.
Oh, nitrogen, not nitroglycerin. Easy mistake to make, Yer Honor...
Yes, no oxygen.
I would ask for LSD, and then 4 hours later, 10 times the heroin dosage mixed with ketamine…
Carbon monoxide comes to mind.
But nitrogen is dirt cheap. Air is about 78% nitrogen already; separating out the 21% oxygen is a fairly simple and inexpensive process.
It makes your valve caps green…
I would request Nitrous Oxide.
One strategic bullet is even cheaper.
Would death by vaccine be considered cruel and unusual?
They purport to use nitrogen; as with it and helium, both are inert gases and will not cause the “strangulation” effect that cyanide or CO2 would cause in the body.
Those puffed-up potato chip bags? Nitrogen. Excluding oxygen retards spoilage.
Excluding oxygen from tires is supposed to make them run cooler, but I can’t see why.
Before he bites the dust, someone needs to ask him if that thousand dollars the preacher paid him to murder his worth what it cost him.
I hope one day soon the State of Alabama will stop the World and let him off.
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