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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Exactly!
Especially with their cooking!
That’s what I don’t understand - why not ‘put him under’ before the death? Doctor’s do it all the time - of course with most of us we wake up after the surgery’s done. A killer wouldn’t wake up. But it’s the same concept.
Horribly, so it only makes sense that he died the same way.
Why? How is the onset of unconsciousness from a sedative different than the onset of unconsciousness from passing out from oxygen deprivation?
The great thing about this method is that it uses nothing that some bleeding heart EU country can block. Lethal injection uses drugs that have been embargoed by several countries. Everything in the system has uses unrelated to execution.
They’ll get better at this method over time. Live and learn, I always say
Sickening.
If the left are so worried....give him Ativan like they did me on a bipap mask just a few weeks ago. And, yes, I was restrained with pneumonia and sepsis out of my mind.
Sick of these leftists. They LOVE criminals and murderers.
Again, what’s the point? How is the onset of unconsciousness from a sedative different than the onset of unconsciousness from passing out from oxygen deprivation?
Whatever it took was still better than he deserved.
Bludgeoned and stabbed to death.
Exactly.
On X they are insufferable. 🙄
He probably tried to avoid breathing. That’s what happens. He hoped for a reprieve.
Commies and Muslims love to empty prisons. They serve a purpose.
I suspect some activists gave him some pointers and told him he’d be helping out the anti-death-penalty cause.
Okay here it is you all.
It took him 22 minutes to die.
So now let’s go back to hanging or firing squad shall we?
The Libs will bellyache about this come tomorrow morning yet how they kill babies in the uterus...
Oh you are so right!!! Wonder how he killed the preachers wife? Wonder how long it took her to die?
What’s wrong with a lethal dose of fentanyl? Just smear a bit on his skin and he’s gone in a few minutes. And the DEA and state police have literally tons of it.
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