Alabama to allow first execution using nitrogen hypoxia

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On Wednesday, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled in favor of a motion to allow the state to execute Kenneth Smith with nitrogen hypoxia.

The use of nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method has never been tested. The gas has a history of being extremely deadly and could pose a threat to the staff and spiritual advisers present in the execution chamber.

Attorney General Steve Marshall posted a statement on X, formerly Twitter, after the court granted his motion to allow Alabama to use nitrogen hypoxia on Smith.

Alison Mollman, interim legal director of the ACLU of Alabama, made a statement denouncing the use of nitrogen hypoxia. Mollman stated that Marshall and Governor Kay Ivey could be putting the lives of staff, spiritual advisers, media, and victims at risk if they do not stop Smith’s execution.

Alabama previously tried to execute Smith last year but failed due to a botched lethal injection. Now, they are trying again, only with a method never tested before and could harm or kill others.

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I have insomnia and I am late, fake, and gay here, but people have been killing other people since before there were people.

People have killed people one on one with their bare hands, people have killed people many on one with their bare hands, people have killed people one on many with instruments as crude as a piece of firewood... people have harnessed the power of the atom to kill the living shit out of mass numbers of people.

What is this shit that only now in 2024 have we figured out a way to kill a dude?

If it were me, I'd go to San Francisco, shoot every dealer in the fucking head, and take their shit.

Then I would go across the bridge to the Q, dump all those baggies in a pan, cook that shit up, get out some works, and give every guy on Death Row what he should have gotten (in many cases) decades ago.

Quick, painless, nobody has to clean up a big mess unless the asshole shits or pukes.

Polly Klaas was 12, and her kidnapper, rapist, and killer has been eating and sleeping and shitting on the taxpayer dime since 1996.

In that one's case and in the case of a few others, I'd like to draw it out, but fuckit, that fuck's getting a dose from the same vat as the rest of the fucks.

Just death.
 
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If he was panting while alive, it's probably because he was holding his breath. They should have put him in one of those suicide pods and filled it without announcing anything. He would have been out like a light before he realised what was happening.

It's the daily heil anyway, so it's guaranteed to be sensationalist bullshit. They probably interpreted his agonic breathing post-mortem as "panting".
 
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If he was panting while alive, it's probably because he was holding his breath. They should have put him in one of those suicide pods and filled it without announcing anything. He would have been out like a light before he realised what was happening.

It's the daily heil anyway, so it's guaranteed to be sensationalist bullshit. They probably interpreted his agonic breathing post-mortem as "panting".
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Yep, this fucker stabbed a woman to death for MONEY.

Fuck him, fuck his bitchy wife. Glad he's no longer sucking up taxpayer money.
 
So he died painlessly with a priest beside him.

Unlike the woman he battered to death.

May the fucker rot in Hell, and his wife lead a miserable life.
 

Alabama carries out first known execution with nitrogen gas in the US. Now the state’s AG expects more states to follow.​

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Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith was put to death Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, marking the nation’s first known execution using that method. Now the state’s attorney general wants to help other states interested in using the new form of capital punishment.

Alabama is one of only three states – Oklahoma and Mississippi being the others – to have approved the method, which is designed to replace oxygen in the body with a high concentration of nitrogen, causing death. So far, Alabama is the only state to have carried it out or even outlined a protocol on how to do it.

After widespread discussion and speculation about how Smith’s execution would unfold, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall told reporters on Friday, “What occurred last night was textbook... As of last night, nitrogen hypoxia as a means of execution is no longer an untested method. It is a proven one. It’s the method that Kenneth Smith ultimately chose, along with 43 other death row inmates in our state,” Marshall said. “I now suspect many states will follow.”

The attorney general also had a message for colleagues across the country who were monitoring developments in the nation’s first execution using nitrogen hypoxia: “Alabama has done it, and now so can you,” Marshall said. “And we stand ready to assist you in implementing this method in your states.”

As the procedure started Thursday evening at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Smith was fitted with a mask, a device that would be used to administer the nitrogen.

The execution process began at 7:53 p.m. CT Thursday, and Smith was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m., according to Alabama Department of Corrections officials.

Nitrogen flowed for about 15 minutes during the procedure, state corrections commissioner John Hamm said in a news conference.

When asked at the news conference about Smith shaking at the beginning of the execution, Hamm said Smith appeared to be holding his breath “for as long as he could” and may have also “struggled against his restraints.”
 
Amin Yasister said:
So he died painlessly with a priest beside him.

Unlike the woman he battered to death.

May the fucker rot in Hell, and his wife lead a miserable life.
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Yeah people really be like, "Yeah I know this guy held a little girl captive for 15 days, raped her repeatedly, burned her to death, and scattered her remains across the city, but execution is inhumane!"
 
Did a quick background check-of course everyone involved in this-from the governor to i.e the AG, has "a personal relationship with Jesus". Probably with Satan cosplaying as Jesus.

Disgusting as well as shameful, I really don't think we Americans have any right to any moral highground whatsoever. African countries, certain Muslim countries such as Marocco, Algeria or Tunesia are not torturing the least of their societies to death. Russia is not doing that, either.

Alabama has still a mind-boggling homide rate (14 per 100 000 vs an average of 5 per 100 000 for the whole of the US), ranks Nr 5 in child poverty etc. But there is "innovation" such as this, at last, Bama is Nr. 1 in something.

Please understand that this is not "conservatism", it's an intrusive, Big State. Without sensible, conservative policies, the next generation will not only abolish capital punishment (good!) but will also go full rainbow leftism.

Now you can downvote me, I don't care.
 
TexasRanger said:
Did a quick background check-of course everyone involved in this-from the governor to i.e the AG, has "a personal relationship with Jesus". Probably with Satan cosplaying as Jesus.

Disgusting as well as shameful, I really don't think we Americans have any right to any moral highground whatsoever. African countries, certain Muslim countries such as Marocco, Algeria or Tunesia are not torturing the least of their societies to death. Russia is not doing that, either.

Alabama has still a mind-boggling homide rate (14 per 100 000 vs an average of 5 per 100 000 for the whole of the US), ranks Nr 5 in child poverty etc. But there is "innovation" such as this, at last, Bama is Nr. 1 in something.

Please understand that this is not "conservatism", it's an intrusive, Big State. Without sensible, conservative policies, the next generation will not only abolish capital punishment (good!) but will also go full rainbow leftism.

Now you can downvote me, I don't care.
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"Oh no a waste of oxygen got euthanized ahhhhhhhhhh"

Cope and cry harder.
 
TexasRanger said:
Did a quick background check-of course everyone involved in this-from the governor to i.e the AG, has "a personal relationship with Jesus". Probably with Satan cosplaying as Jesus.

Disgusting as well as shameful, I really don't think we Americans have any right to any moral highground whatsoever. African countries, certain Muslim countries such as Marocco, Algeria or Tunesia are not torturing the least of their societies to death. Russia is not doing that, either.

Alabama has still a mind-boggling homide rate (14 per 100 000 vs an average of 5 per 100 000 for the whole of the US), ranks Nr 5 in child poverty etc. But there is "innovation" such as this, at last, Bama is Nr. 1 in something.

Please understand that this is not "conservatism", it's an intrusive, Big State. Without sensible, conservative policies, the next generation will not only abolish capital punishment (good!) but will also go full rainbow leftism.

Now you can downvote me, I don't care.
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Go shove your sanctimonious morality up your ass sideways after you park a bus up your ass sideways as well.

People that commit premeditated murder should be killed, not allowed to eat candy bars in jail for decades and suck up resources.

You'd probably enjoy having a train run on you by Ted Bundy, Gary Ridgeway, Jeffery Dalmer, and John Wayne Gacey.

Typical killer-cuck. Go fellate some more murders and rapists.
 
This argument about how you apparently need to be a Saint to judge another is cope and arrogance in itself.

So I'm not a God.... never said I was, but, I am not a person who'll beat another person to death, therefore, I can pass judgement on someone who is and has without any contradiction or hypocrisy.

Thinking otherwise, that only the perfect can be critical of others is how we got in the mess we're in today where some struggle to call even shoplifting a crime.

Good riddance to human rubbish.
 
I've read a few other articles about this that were less anti-death penalty and more neutral.

Basically they made a big show of turning on the gas. So out of spite, desperation, ect, this jackass tried to hold his breath for as long as possible. And he started thrashing around, trying to knock off the mask. Which loosened some of the seals and let some of the gas leak out and air get in.

If he hadn't done that and just kept breathing normally, he would've been out in seconds instead of minutes. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, to the very end.

Definitely room for improvement. They should probably use a hood instead of just a mask. And they shouldn't let the inmate when it's getting turned on to prevent the breath holding.
 
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