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White House ‘deeply troubled’ over execution of man using nitrogen gas in Alabama
The Hill ^ | 01/26/2024 | BRETT SAMUELS

Posted on 01/26/2024 12:26:32 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The White House said Friday it was “deeply troubled” after Alabama executed a man using nitrogen gas in a first-of-its-kind capital punishment.

“The reports of Kenneth Smith and his death last night obviously is very troubling. It is very troubling to us as an administration, it is very troubling to us here at the White House,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters.

“The president has long said and has had deep deep concerns with how the death penalty is implemented and whether it is consistent … with our values,” she added.

Smith was put to death Thursday in Alabama night after breathing nitrogen gas through a face mask, causing oxygen deprivation. It was the first time the method had been used to execute an American prisoner.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; execution; nitrogen; nitrogengas; troubling; whitehouse
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I are sure they are.

I mean if we start executing men who pay for their wives to be killed they have a lot to worry about.

21 posted on 01/26/2024 12:38:33 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: IYAS9YAS

me = mean


22 posted on 01/26/2024 12:38:36 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: rdcbn1
"I’m kind of shocked that anyone in the Biden Admin cares about what happened to an old dead white guy."

I think they care more about what may happen to THEM.

23 posted on 01/26/2024 12:38:59 PM PST by jackibutterfly (We have a God Who loves us, and there's nothing we can do about it. Yes!!)
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To: Army Air Corps

“But this same administration is positively gleeful about abortions.”

Yeah; go figure.


24 posted on 01/26/2024 12:39:32 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

White House ‘ecstatic and gleeful’ over Illegal Alien murders of women and children.


25 posted on 01/26/2024 12:39:57 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I couldn’t care less.

I’m more concerned with what I am going to have for dinner tonight.


26 posted on 01/26/2024 12:40:06 PM PST by occamrzr06
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To: Army Air Corps

Maybe if Alabama had torn the guy to pieces without anesthesia Biden would have been OK with it.


27 posted on 01/26/2024 12:40:11 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nitrogen is a deadly gas. Everyone who lived in the 19th century and breathed that ~80% nitrogen mix is dead now. ;-)


28 posted on 01/26/2024 12:40:21 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Selective concern from leftists always totally forgets the anguish and panic of the last minutes of all the victims’ lives.

Just spends months or years wringing hands over the sadness of executing the convicted murderers. They get to live years or usually decades shooting hoops and watching TV in prison as the date is delayed.

Idea: make the executions so frequent they “unusual” part will be laughably obsolete.

Carey Dean Moore spent 38 years on death row by the time of his execution in 2018. He was sentenced to death in 1980.

Brandon Jones in Georgia in 2016. He was in prison 36 years and four months between first being sentenced to death and execution. His initial conviction had been overturned because jurors had consulted a Bible during deliberations. He was retried in 1997 and again convicted and sentenced to death.

Manuel Valle was executed in Florida on Sept. 28, 2011. The Supreme Court delayed his execution for several hours, and Justice Breyer dissented from the decision allowing it to go forward. Breyer wrote that Valle’s 33 years on death row were a cruel and unusual punishment: “I have little doubt about the cruelty of so long a period of incarceration under sentence of death.”


29 posted on 01/26/2024 12:40:23 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: rdcbn1

That’s how I see it. Post partum abortion.


30 posted on 01/26/2024 12:40:56 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“White House troubled”.... Agree. Needs the Chief hemorrhoid removed.


31 posted on 01/26/2024 12:41:34 PM PST by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
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To: NWFree

“Was President Retard troubled over the woman he murdered for $1000? I didn’t think so.”

Yeah; I doubt it.


32 posted on 01/26/2024 12:41:41 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bless their heart


33 posted on 01/26/2024 12:41:48 PM PST by delchiante
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Long drop from a short rope or firing squad are quick, effecient and cost effective.


34 posted on 01/26/2024 12:42:34 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I am NOT TROUBLED.

36 years later he is executed.


35 posted on 01/26/2024 12:45:09 PM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They should have started pumping the nitrogen without telling him as the thrashing was likely from holding his breath. Given his anti death penalty final statements it is possible he tried to put on a show. There is no doubt he was encouraged to do so prior to the execution.


36 posted on 01/26/2024 12:50:24 PM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: ChicagoConservative27

““The president has long said and has had deep deep concerns with how the death penalty is implemented and whether it is consistent … with our values,””

Killing babies, though, seems to be quite consistent with your values!


37 posted on 01/26/2024 12:50:52 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But Biden could give a rats ass about the Jews who were slaughtered on October 7th since he doesn’t want to piss off his pro hamas loving base


38 posted on 01/26/2024 12:54:57 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: dfwgator

I wonder if the dead perp will be voting Dem in November, my guess is yes


39 posted on 01/26/2024 12:55:29 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The only thing that surprised me is that it took him more than 20 minutes to die. No one holds their breath for more than 4-5 minutes at most, so he was breathing the gas for fifteen minutes. After only a few minutes he should have been unconscious and unable to control his breathing at all, and should therefore have been dead shortly thereafter.


40 posted on 01/26/2024 12:55:41 PM PST by Little Pig
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