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Supreme Court rules nitrogen hypoxia execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith WILL go ahead tomorrow: Denies death row killer's 11th hour request for mercy amid fears over first of its kind gas method
UK Daily Mail ^ | January 24 2024 | JEN SMITH

Posted on 01/24/2024 12:39:34 PM PST by knighthawk

The Supreme Court has denied death row killer Kenneth Eugene Smith's last minute request for a stay in execution.

Smith will be executed tomorrow in Atmore, Alabama, with nitrogen hypoxia. It will be the first execution of its kind in the US and first known nitrogen execution in the world.

He had begged the court for mercy, citing experts concerns over the method despite previously requesting it.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: alabama; crime; eugenesmith; nitrogenhypoxia; scotus; scotusexecution
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1 posted on 01/24/2024 12:39:34 PM PST by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Somebody’s gotta be first.
Might as well be you....................


2 posted on 01/24/2024 12:40:53 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: knighthawk
Use helium.

I could use the laugh.

3 posted on 01/24/2024 12:42:34 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: knighthawk

time to get right with God.


4 posted on 01/24/2024 12:43:28 PM PST by dadfly
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To: knighthawk
This is one of the most painless and merciful ways to die.

Hardly a decent way to execute someone. Tie the guy up and do it Green Mile style.

In The Green Mile (1999), Percy Wetmore botches the execution of Eduard  Delacroix. It is said that it was terribly ruined because the sponge that  goes under the cap was dry, however,

5 posted on 01/24/2024 12:44:05 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Red Badger

Nitrous Oxide hypoxia and he could die laughing.


6 posted on 01/24/2024 12:44:25 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: billorites

You can kill anyone with an overdose of insulin. Cheap and effective.


7 posted on 01/24/2024 12:44:44 PM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: knighthawk

Does this mean he will die of the bends??


8 posted on 01/24/2024 12:46:05 PM PST by Cuttnhorse
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To: Tijeras_Slim

πŸ‘ŒπŸ˜πŸ‘..............................


9 posted on 01/24/2024 12:46:29 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: knighthawk

Actually I read an article years ago that said that nitrogen was the easiest way to go as it makes the person feel good before they pass out. If it was up to me the bastard would be burned at the stake and sent back to hell.


10 posted on 01/24/2024 12:47:49 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Cuttnhorse

I have always found it incredible that we want to extend mercy to the merciless.


11 posted on 01/24/2024 12:47:49 PM PST by Right Brother (Pray for God's intervention to stop UMCRevMom's invasion of Free Republic)
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To: Cuttnhorse

Asphyxiation


12 posted on 01/24/2024 12:50:30 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: knighthawk
In 1988, Smith brutally stabbed Elizabeth Sennett in exchange for $1,000 in a murder-for-hire plot

This guy didn't value his own life much more than his victim.

13 posted on 01/24/2024 12:51:23 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: Sicon
Correction:

This guy didn't value his own life much more than his victim's.

14 posted on 01/24/2024 12:52:03 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: Sicon
In 1988, Smith brutally stabbed Elizabeth Sennett in exchange for $1,000 in a murder-for-hire plot This guy didn't value his own life much more than his victim.

A man, desperate to get out of his marriage, wants to kill his wife. Sitting at a bar one day, over the course of a few drinks, he tells a man he meets about his problems. Artie, as he is called, says that he feels bad for the man, and he is willing to kill his wife for only a dollar. A little inebriated and in disbelief, the man hands the man a dollar and tells him sure. If you can kill my wife for a dollar, then here is your payment upfront. A few days pass. Then a few weeks. And soon the man forgets about the encounter, meanwhile he and his wife come to reconciliation. Meanwhile, Artie is watching, stalking, waiting to make good on his contract. One Sunday, the man and his wife are out grocery shopping at the nearby Kroger. While in the produce section, the man tells his wife is going to find a bottle of wine for the evening. The wife now alone, Artie sees his chance to make his move. He innocently walks near her, and then suddenly wraps his hands around her throat. Violently choking her to death. Just as she takes her last breath, the man comes back. He yells at him to stop, tries to fight him off, but it is too late. In anger, he tries to kill the psychopath, but he is soon overpowered and is killed also. Unfortunately, just as he is dying, an unlucky witness stumbles onto the crime, and he too is quickly killed. It is a gruesome scene, police come, and slowly the entire story unfolds as to what happened. The next morning, the newspapers read: Sunday at Kroger, Artie Chokes Three for a Dollar In The Produce Section.

15 posted on 01/24/2024 12:53:15 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Right Brother

Just use fentanyl confiscated during a drug raid. β€œHe died from fentanyl courtesy of the ______ cartel. Please send your complaints to the cartel.”


16 posted on 01/24/2024 12:55:48 PM PST by Clay Moore (My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch. )
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To: knighthawk

Why don’t they use fentanyl injections?

It seems very effective at overdosing users and I assume thy just pass out from it before dying?


17 posted on 01/24/2024 1:00:06 PM PST by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: knighthawk

Bring back the firing squads. Millions of satisfied customers, and even Communists could do it well.


18 posted on 01/24/2024 1:00:26 PM PST by bakeneko
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To: knighthawk
I was inspecting a Heat treating furnace once that used nitrogen for atmosphere, I had shut off the valve and locked it out but the valve was bad and was leaking. Within a minute of entry I found myself blacking out, I was able to give a last strength push and fell out of the vestibule before I passed out. I would have been dead within another 2 minutes. Scared the shit out of me. The next day I went out and bought a thousand dollar monitor system.
19 posted on 01/24/2024 1:02:23 PM PST by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: 1Old Pro

Got me.


20 posted on 01/24/2024 1:04:37 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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