Alabama AG Steve Marshall holds news conference to address the execution of state inmate Kenneth Smith using nitrogen hypoxia-- MORE ➡ shorturl.at/bluL1
This was a PR disaster for the US. Marshall and his team argued that this method would render Smith unconscious in seconds and dead in minutes. Instead after previously butchering him on the gurney they gave him a year of mental hell then slowly suffocated him over 22 minutes. This is a dent in US moral authority and just disgusting. Nobody condones Smith’s actions but this is a shameful way that Alabama chooses to honour the memory of the victim: truly shameful.
It was a despicable execution! that of a man gasping for air before losing consciousness! This protocol is torture! Smith did not lose consciousness before several minutes of agony!
