“Violently shaking, thrashing:” Witness details first ever nitrogen gas execution 

You can’t botch a firing squad.

You do have to wonder if the woman he stabbed to death had a similar physical response.

*He murdered a woman for money. He was sentenced to death 30 years ago.*. *I'm sure his victim went through worse, at least he knew why he was dying.*

I wonder if his victim was uncomfortable, upon her death , 36 years ago.

Lee, could you please tell us how peaceful his victim went ?

Having worked in corrections, the worst punishment is a lifetime in prison.

Why does the media want us to feel bad for him

Shame on the media for sympathizing with a killer. Shame on you.

it's 30 years over due

I wonder how the 3 innocent people he murdered/shot to death, died? Do you think their death was merciful? Keep things in perspective 🙄

“ I’ve never seen such a violent execution “……….try looking at some crime scene photos

RIP Elizabeth Sennett 🪦 Murdered 1988

…and his victim probably went through far worse, so what’s the problem here?

Elizabeth Sennett sorry you had to wait so long for justice. May you rest in peace.

May his victim rest in peace.

What did his victim experience when he killed them?

Imagine trying to convince people to feel bad for the murderer.

I feel certain that the victim was petrified and begging for her life and he had no sympathy for her . I feel no sympathy for him whatsoever !

Bad things happen to bad people!

he stabbed a woman to death. Where were his thoughts of humanity going through his mind as he was taking her life?

You people are nuts... This man has been awaiting the sentence for 30 years for a contract killing....How peaceful was the murder ??????

Wonder if the victims died non violently?🤔

Justice

That women he killed didnt get mercy nor did he care what she went through. Who cares how the prisoner was executed

“Inside the house, Elizabeth was ambushed, violently punched, beaten, and bludgeoned, and stabbed over and over again with the six-inch survival knife that Smith and Parker had brought with them.”Wondering if she shakes while being attacked by this monster!! What a shame for this people who stand by the criminal, instead of the victim! RIP Elizabeth!

Sorry not sorry....the victim didn't get that consideration

Wonder if it was anywhere as terrifying as the victim endured?

What its so weird is that they make it into a show with curtains and all.

Too easy. What did the lady he murdered go through?

I'm opposed to the death penalty but, maybe don't commit murder? Especially in a state like Alabama?

I grasp that some behaviour in society is completely unacceptable and that the rest of society should not be accountable financially for enabling that behaviour whether incarcerated or not. That does not mean that we have to be brutal about curtailing that behaviour. I had a much-loved dog. She lived to be twenty years old in human years which is quite a feat. Her legs started to cave. I could see in her an embarrassment and sort of a shame that she could no longer support her body to go out to pee or poo. I had to let her go for both her dignity and mine. I was with her when she left this world. It was calm and peaceful. She simply went limp, and she was gone. The point of this long text is that if veterinarians have worked out dignified euthanasia then why can we not extend the same care to people for reasons we don't understand cannot be part of a disciplined society? We do not have to sink to the level of a perpetrator to end the perpetration of agony.

Hmmmm, did the people he murdered drift off into a sweet sleep, or did they thrash, fight during their terrifying murders? Whatever this guy went through, it pales in comparison to what his victim experienced. I don’t feel badly for this guy, not one iota.

Violently shaking, thrashing...something the victim can never experience...

Let’s also talk about the individual that he killed, and the suffering of that individual and the suffering of the family. Let’s make this report fair and balanced on both sides.

No one is or ever will talk about the emotions and thoughts and sheer terror his victim experienced…

Another question i have for his wife. Why would you wanna watch that? Bad enough thinking about his heinous crime.

Imagine the 193 people on death row (since 1973) who were exonerated because they were not guilty. Now imagine the ones who were not guilty, and not exonerated.

Far to much sympathy is being given to a murderer who had no sympathy for the woman he killed.

100% justice was carried out. His victim live in pain for about 3 hours before she died.

Why does this guy attend executions?

Yeah what about their victims

What would the ceo of msnbc want to happen to the killer if she was murdered?

I have mixed feelings about the death penalty ... and I certainly would not be able to implement the man's death. However, does ANYONE consider the suffering the murdered woman went through as they discuss this?

Survive 3 weeks without food, 3 days without water, 3 minutes without air

These people should not get a choice on how they die their victims didn't 😢

Lol, my comments keep getting deleted immediately on videos like this. What's with all the censorship, RU-vid??

His victims, I'm sure, didn't live to suffer PTSD.

MSDNC is more concerned about this man than they are about the family and the victim.

I don't understand how is this an issue. How about don't be a murderer the first place?

Oh, man....he suffered? Thats awful. I guess he shouldnt have killed anyone then.

*He murdered someone for money. He lived over 30 years longer than the woman he murdered. His last words were non-apologetic victim-playing. Sorry, but I’m not concerned.*

what about the person he murdered? What do these witnesses want a pink birthday cake exit?

Wait... WHAT? The convict is asked if he/she opts in for Nitrogen gas??? Correct me if I am wrong but ....I'm pretty sure they person they murdered didn't get any choices.

It was my understanding that nitrogen doesn't result in the buildup of co2, so there isn't a carbonic acid response in the body, which makes me wonder if the thrashing and shaking was theatrics, or perhaps a fear response, rather than it being a biological response.

The authorities expected him to be "unconscious within seconds and die within minutes". Outrageously misleading statement, avoiding just exactly what he experienced during those seconds and minutes before his death.

I've never understood, when they were giving lethal injections, why they used brand new needles. ... it's like... the person isn't going to catch anything. 🤔

Agonal breathing is reflexive, and happens even after clinical death. I wonder if his victims suffered... but for some, the perpetrator is the only one with rights.

This is absolutely insane!

Was the innocent person he killed also violently shaking and thrashing?

Whoever is speaking is definitely a lefty

The slow reduction of atmospheric pressure results in drowsiness, unconsciousness and death, it happens in airplanes quite often.

You are saying it took 15 minutes or longer to induce death. Would 15 minutes in the electric chair be similar in length of time or shorter?

I wonder how his victims died were they calm?

Was he given a list of options on how it was to be done

So basically he experienced what his victim experienced.

This is all so upsetting....why was this not available on pay-per-view? (or free on prison TV?)

During his initial attempted execution, this man dehydrated himself and tried all measures to avoid making injection easy. He refused to make a fist. Fine, can't expect him to cooperate. But, for him to claim that the poking of the needle for failure to find a vein intravenously and then intramuscularly and "excruciating poking from the needles" was inhumane?? He stabbed a woman to death! He never fully accepted his capital sentence. As the AG put it, "he gamed the system for as long as he could," prolonging his life until HE chose the nitrogen gas method. Presumably, he didn't think he would get his choice approved due to his prior "botched" execution, let alone by a never-before-tested method. But, the state used his own defense attorneys' expert witness on euthanasia against him, the expert claiming, "it's a humane way to die!" He also held his breath as long as he could and was told only to drink clear liquids an hour or so before the execution. He didn't eat all day then ate Waffle House smothered in A1, so that he could get sick and choke on his vomit and not breathe in nitrogen, so that it would look inhumane and someone would step in. They knew he was going to be doing this. Unsurprisingly, during his final statement, there was no mention of the victim and no apology to the victim's friends and family or the courts. Just some offensively ironic ravings about "love, peace, and light."

I wonder if his victim was "Violently shaking, thrashing" when they were killed?

Anyone have any idea as to what the convicted felons victim endured as she died?

I’m sure the woman he murdered died peacefully, right? Or does anyone care about her, or her family?

I wonder if he was thinking of the woman he murdered while he lay there dying.

Oh well, I bet he did not get his victim to agree to being killed.

As they say...2 wrongs do not make a right...this is not justice..rotting in a jail cell for the rest of your life is justice.. living among other prisoners for the rest of your life is justice..this is just making the state a murderer.

Oooh! Should have been televised via Pay Per View! 👀

Some countries that still use the death penalty. The USA is in fine company. China 1,000s see text Iran 576+ Saudi Arabia 196 Egypt 24 USA 18 Iraq 11+ Singapore 11 Kuwait 7 Somalia 6+

RIP bozo.

You're absolutely correct. Him murdering that innocent women in cold blood was inhumane and, a violent execution.

How come you guy's never have this kind of fight for the victims or innocent people fighting for freedom?

Call it inhumane, call it violent, call it anything you want, but far worse can be said of what his victim went through when she lost her life. I don't lack empathy, nor did I want this man to suffer, but when comparing the death of his victim to his own death, he clearly got the better option -- not that she was voluntarily given one at all.

And yet Chris Watts and Chad doerman sits... Smfh

MSNBC has this attitude that they are perfect. Always over critical of others.

Witness-"This was a violent execution!". Burning at the steak--"Hold my beer "!

Why should we care what it was like for him to die. He did not care about how his victim suffered when they died.

It’s the termination of a life, what do expect? Imagine what his victim experienced, he wasn’t concerned about their well being and pain.

Is it humane how they put down a racehorse with a broken leg?

Why does the death row inmate look like a dollar store version of Al Capone?

This guy is a serial execution witness....

Just a note. Death by nitrogen gas is something that has happened to many industrial workers, who sometimes have to weld in a nitrogen environment because of the risk of starting a fire. They don't thrash, cry out, shake, or anything; they just drop to the ground. This kind of welding is dangerous because people who see it and rush in to rescue the collapsed workers will themselves black out without warning. Our bodies have ways to detect whether air is going in and out, and to detect whether carbon dioxide is leaving, but we have no way to detect whether the air we breathe actually contains oxygen. I expect that, if the person thrashed and trembled, it was either because he was faking, or because he finally understood that he was looking at the last four walls he would ever see.

How is it the doctors who assist terminal patients to die with dignity can manage a peaceful passing with family in attendance but the criminal justice system just can’t do this well? This is a horrible way to die.

May God judge us accordingly. We've all been weighed, measured and found wanting.

A bullit costs a few bucks, what wrong with that, it instant. Are they trying to torture the victim?

Funny how he complains about how he was killed. What about the victims?

MSNBC has an agenda with regards to this guest.

Nitrogen is actually euphoric. The effects of nitrogen are known to every diver in the world. It is used in assisted suicide. The effects related to this execution cannot be the result of nitrogen.They can only be described as the understandable effort of the condemned to avoid breathing

Its sad because when someone commits murder u go to jail .

The Cruelty is the Point. Red states will readily adopt this.

It isn't all about the person being executed- it also affects the people administering & viewing the process. It is evil.

Look! This is awful what he did to land there, but still! This is messed up!

And yet a high-quality 45acp round costs a mere couple of dollars and can be administered by a mechanized device that only would cost a few thousand dollars. And it would be an instantaneous, painless execution - with 100% success rate.

There is a reason all the veterinarians stopped using this method and came out about it's cruelty to try and prevent this.