Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in Alabama nitrogen gas execution: Updates

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Kenneth Smith ‘struggled for life’ for 22 minutes in nitrogen gas execution: Updates
independent.co.uk

“Kenny just began to gasp for air repeatedly and the execution took about 25 minutes total.”

Pretty compassionate way to kill a person.

Once again, the Law in the south is brutal.

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Sorry. I can't emphasize with criminals. It's impossible for me. The only thing that is weird to me is why on earth you took almost 40 years to execute a prisoner? It doesn't make sense. And other thing. I hope all the 4 criminals get the same punishment as well. It looks like the idiot paid the most.

"Pastor Charles Sennett Sr. hired Billy Gray Williams, one of his tenants, to murder his wife, 45-year-old Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett.[6] To carry out the plan, Williams hired Kenneth Smith and John Forrest Parker to assist him.[6] Sennett was going to pay each of the men $1,000 for the murder.[6] On March 18, 1988, Elizabeth Sennett was found with fatal injuries in her home in Colbert County, Alabama.[6]"

Oh and other thing for all the softy snowflakes. Let's hope your mom, sister, granny, father, brother, never get killed. It's way too easy to talk from your comfortable positions.

I can't emphasize with criminals

That says more about you than about the criminals. They are still human beings. Also, we’re supposed to be better than them.

Disagree that rapists are human.

Agree that the only way to make the world better is to not stoop to someone else's level.

Would add that protecting the wrongly accused is more important than getting rid of the guilty.

I sure hope your mom sister granny father brother never get executed for a crime they didn't commit.

Did something happen to you? Like was your mom, sister, granny, father, and/or brother killed?

Too that shit to those that were executed whilst innocent

Most sane people can't empathize with (violent) criminals. But I can empathize with the wrongfully convicted. As distasteful as it is to let murderers and rapists drag out their drain on society, it's infinitely preferable to executing an innocent person.

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