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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But this same administration is positively gleeful about abortions.
Was President Retard troubled over the woman he murdered for $1000? I didn’t think so
Excellent point.
As for the weepy bleeding heart anti death penalty folks, here is a reminder of the Catholic Church official executioners in earlier times.
“One man, Giovanni Battista Bugatti, carried out 516 executions as the “Pope’s Executioner” between 1796 and 1865. The executioner used one of three methods: guillotine (after 1816), smashing the head with a mallet and cutting the throat of the condemned, or drawing and quartering.”
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Hard to beat the 1st 3 pings! All are excellent points!
So its not ok to get rid of a convicted murdering POS but it is better than ok to dismember and vacuum out the remains of an innocent baby? These people are worthless POS
I think the White House just needs to look at this as a very late term abortion.
I’m kind of shocked that anyone in the Biden Admin cares about what happened to an old dead white guy.
Imagine this used for sedation or treason? I’ll bet a lot of them are worried about what happens based on their expansion of lawfare after Trump is elected.
I’m deeply troubled that this murderer was allowed to live 35 years too long. The crime occurred in 1988!!!
This is diplomatic language for “we don’t care, but we need to seem like we do.”
If it was a J6 Prisoner, the Left would have cheered.
They probably think nitrogen is another greenhouse gas!
Cho Bi Dung doesn’t care about victims....just wants to protect the criminal class.....something that he is familiar with.
Well, I think it has been used for ‘sedation’ - of a kind, anyway...
“But this same administration is positively gleeful about abortions.”
Yeah, the demonic left is not concerned at all about the torture an innocent infant in the womb has to endure during an abortion.
Crocodile tears from the Crocodile in Chief and his owner, Obama.
Consistent with my values would me that bastard would have been beaten and stabbed and left to die. Same as his victim.
I saw a hyperbolic article claiming that breathing nitrogen was cruel and unusual and that it was a danger to anyone in the vicinity in the case that the nitrogen leaked. That’s odd, since the 78% concentration that we are all breathing doesn’t seem to poison us.
Nitrogen won’t cause the panicky feelings of suffocation that carbon dioxide causes. The brain will simply slow down and shut off as it is deprived of oxygen. I’ve heard about it from someone who did hypobaric training as a member of a flight crew.
As far as I can tell, this method of execution was much more humane and painless than what he subjected his victim to.
Well he died doing what he loved doing... “breathing”.... f#ck ‘em.
Well, yeah, the White House IS very deeply troubled. And it will continue that way as long as DemocRAtz are there.
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