According to BBC News, We staying in the United States and a death throw prisoner in Alabama is due to become the first person in the US to be executed using nitrogen gas a method which the United Nations has called cruel it will be the state’s second attempt to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith who was convicted in 1989 of murdering a preacher’s wife in a hired killing despite growing calls for a stay of execution the
State authorities say they will press ahead with the death sentence our correspondent Tom Bitman reports from Atore in Southern Alabama hidden in the Alabama Woods the jail is meant to strike fear into every convict for here more than 160 inmates await execution but it is the fate of one Kenneth Smith sparking an outcry from campaigners and a legal battle going down to the wire this prison was already
Controversy Surrounding Unprecedented Execution
According to BBC News, Among the top in the US for carrying out executions but what is planned for Thursday would put it in a new league as the first in history to gas an inmate to death using nitrogen and that warns experts could cause convulsions and brain damage but not death or other catastrophic mishaps Smith has already been subjected to one failed execution by lethal injection how are you Esther his supporters say trying again
With an untested method that breaks the law on cruel and unusual punishment thank you this veteran campaigner against capital punishment remains in daily contact with Smith yes Kenny whose sister good evening H hope you have been doing well I also see this as a crucial test case against Suffocation by the state he suffers from PTSD from the terribly um attempted botched execution and now one’s
Controversial Death Penalty Case For BBC News
According to BBC News, Going towards something which might even be worse was two weeks ago today 45-year-old Dorene Elizabeth Smith was convicted in 1989 of murdering the wife of an Alabama preacher who paid him and another man $1,000 each the jury recommended life in jail but the judge overruled them and sentenced Smith to death Ken s sorry about that I just went ahead Kenny reached Smith on the phone
But he said he was too unwell to do an interview he wrote later saying he was suffering panic attacks and felt he was being tortured Alabama’s governor who can halt an execution wouldn’t talk to us yeah you can’t have in a statement the Attorney General’s office said it would proceed with the execution on Thursday I don’t know man I like Alabama and I tell you it’s good people and one local lawmaker who
Defending The Use Of Nitrogen Gas
According to BBC News, Voted for the use of nitrogen gas rejects the UN’s criticism I don’t know about degrading I don’t know about inhumane I think we’re improving but this one’s suffocation Yeah I know and I don’t remember exactly how the victim died but I think it may be even better than what the process was that he did to the victim I don’t know that and I don’t know there’s a good way to is that what it’s about for you though is it
That sounds like retribution no I don’t think so capital punishment in America has been in steady decline for years now but on Alabama’s death row they fear this execution could create a lethal new Turning Point Tom Bitman BBC News at more Alabama
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