How Alabama's first nitrogen gas execution transpired
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2024
- Alabama carried out its first nitrogen hypoxia execution Thursday in the case of convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith. Spectators present during the execution said the process lasted longer than expected, while Alabama's attorney general Steve Marshall said the result was "textbook." CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano reports.
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And how did he traumatize and torture his victim....
35 years to be executed? That is the real problem with capitol punishment.
It allows time for more evidence to be found that could exonerate them if it turns out they are really innocent. It happens.
@@kittylemeu 5 years max.
They botched the last execution too... should have listened to the video.
@@andrewwinchel4659Thats the thing, people who want to speed up the death also tend to not think about any nuance and just get blood hungry.
In our history we went full speed ahead on the death penalty and got *_a fuckton_* of people who have since been proven innocent, murded and the case subsiqently buried.
Really? A fuckton? I'd like to know where you got your facts from.@@gremblorthesackgoblin7953
Whatever he felt would not have matched what his innocent victim experienced.
What he did to his vuctim was gruesome .....
Why not use Fentynal works pretty good I guess cheaper too.
Abundant too, especially right there in the prison.
Problem is what it can do to someone who is exposed to it without ever ingesting it. It's insanely dangerous to more than the criminal.
@@lynn6799 no it isn't. Don't believe everything you see on tv
Also, victims families don't want them to feel "good" in their final moments.
What about the people they killed
Some of these people that commits some of the heinous crimes against their victims never cared how much pain they inflicted. So why is the media acting as if this guy is a victim
Facts!
When did 2 wrongs make a right? Why so many decades went by before the first attempt? Honest questions...
At least when he woke up he knew that was his last. Victim didn't
Wayy back they did a "smoke test" of a space shuttle, filled with nitrogen, no oxygen. Turned it on no fire if a wire shorted. Test done, one guy walks in, drops to the floor, another guy follows. You don't even know you are being suffocated. We got confined space laws out of it OSHA.
When I learned to scuba dive and we were talking about how long you can stay at a certain depth and all that, we learned about the danger of nitrogen narcosis-"rapture of the deep."
The danger is that it hits you so fast and you feel so sedated, you don;t try to save yourself,
Why don’t we discuss how his victim suffered? I’m sure she suffered greatly without family or loved ones present.
You have a literal amendment in the constitution against cruel and unusual punishment. I’m sorry you’d rather not abide by the constitution
yea well look at the supreme court case greg vs georgia greg, a person sentenced to death, aiad that the death sentence was aggainst the 9th ammendment, but its not because the supreme court said it was used throughout history as a punishment.
@aarn... ...which was written when death by hanging was common place...And I know so was slavery blah blah blah...
@thomasjene8530 ...which was written when death by hanging was common place...And I know so was slavery blah blah blah...
Shame on CBS for continuing to whine on behalf of this vicious bit of human filth. Where's the concern for the victim?
If being traumatized means the nurse couldn't find a vien, then I'm massively traumatized. FFS
RIGHT!
Meaning wtf. He got fat on death row ??
It took them 7 tries to find my vein in the ER once. Sure glad it wasn't an emergency~
@@deneseburrell In an emergency they have other ways of finding access. They'll drill through your bone and inject medications straight into the bone marrow. It's called intraosseous access.
In the days of "journalism", the only people who "reported" were people who actually were present at the event.
Uh, yeah, now they receive stories from people... who were actually at the event...
@@princesspupcake1269 exactly… literally not first hand accounts
Do they not play telephone in your primary school?
@@XERXESDOE They're literally getting stories from verified sources, and multiple people all saying the same exact thing. Usually from reporters... who were actually there...
@@princesspupcake1269Stories which can be made up and contorted beyond all recognition. You don’t even know if the person purported to originate the story even exists!
Stop lying
I bet he held his breath for those minutes.
That's what the prision people who were there said last night, but I haven't seen that repeated today as the leftie media has to get its common story of torture and cruelty straight.
That is exactly what they said which caused it to take longer
So a reporter and "spirit advisor" are qualified to opinion on what the flinches where?🤣🤣🤣
How did his victim die? How is the family of the lady he killed still suffering to this day?
I have no sympathy for this killer.
Humane? I'm sorry, how is this even an issue?! 🤦♀️
Because the constitution bars cruel and unusual punishment so if the method were both new and inhumane it would be unconstitutional.
@@zeitgeistzebra eye for an eye. Did the victims not suffer cruel and unusual punishment? I would imagine the fact that people are arguing in favor of the convicted murderer is nothing but a slap in the face to the victim's loved ones.
@@guesswhat-chickenbutt they didn't suffer at the hands of the government, which is what the cruel and unusual criterion applies to. Plus being cruel now doesn't undo the cruelty before
It is unfortunate that a human being has sunken to a terrible level, I am sure Mrs Stennit may have begged for her life, now before his death he realized how awful it is killing someone, her children also lost a mother. Her husband was a monster and a coward. She had a horrible death please dont forget that fact.
A couple of months ago at the corporation where I work in Germany, four people were repairing a OVEN, they went inside and did not come out because there was an atmosphere with nitrogen and laughter was heard for about five minutes and then silence.
What is it with Germans and giant ovens? lol
Did he explode or something
no that only happens when you eat spicy indian curry
Or in the movie Scanners@@FloridaMan69.
They didn't have enough in the budget for Carolina reapers.
I bet what all those death row inmates did was FAR more cruel and inhumane to their victims than the execution was for them‼️ They get NO sympathy from me‼️ Sorry, NOT SORRY‼️ I am sorry for those who are INNOCENT and wrongly executed ‼️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Exactly how I feel. Sorry, but I don't get the sympathy here. 🤔
Nitrogen or nitrous oxide?
The people saying it was cruel were going to complain either way because they're against the death penalty.
the death penalty is a horrible thing. It doesn't do justice.
They didn't know the sponge was supposed to be wet.
Huh? They didn't use an electric chair.
I was wondering if they shaved his eye brows..
Spasm and twitching???? You really don't want to see me fall asleep on the couch while i am trying to watch a movie then.
Do you shed the same liberal tears for this mans victims?
why are we letting inmates choose?
We breathe 78% nitrogen already and feel no pain from it. So our bodies are already equipped for nitrogen. It isn't something new in our body, they are basically just removing the oxygen from the mixture. So how would you feel any pain when we breath nitrogen all our lives?
Were his victims given a humane death?
I'm sorry, don't you have to do some pretty cruel things to get on death row!? And we're supposed to treat him with the utmost kindness like he's a decent human being? What a joke. And why is it taking 35 years? It's not like they're doing them every day. The whole system is messed up! A complete waste of our tax dollars!
Since when did the U.N. get to decide what "cruel and unusual" is? That phrase came from our own Constitution!
Only in America are the criminals treated better than there victims
Check out Canada.
Check out the majority of countries in Europe, especially Northern Europe.
Thank you Alabama for leading the United States in helping prison overcrowding
The death penalty is a very complicated topic. If you are hard for it or hard against it, then you probably haven’t considered the nuances.
On the one hand, I can’t honestly state that if someone murdered someone I loved, I wouldn’t want that person executed. I probably would. I think most of us would.
But after listening to people from the innocence project talk about death row inmates who they have saved and shown to be innocent, it’s hard to be fully behind killing someone.
It’s a philosophical question, but if even one innocent person is put to death, and surely there have been many, then how can we ever justify such a penalty?
For me, the preponderance of evidence would have to be overwhelming. Video, multiple witnesses, DNA, etc., to such a point where there would be zero question in anyone’s mind as to whether or not the person was guilty.
Someone found guilty based off of anything less than extremely convincing evidence should not be subjected to the death penalty.
How recent are the convictions of people who are supposedly innocent on death row?
I’m guessing they’re all old convictions. Because with DNA evidence + cameras it’s hard to say anyone who recently got sentenced to death is innocent. If they were convicted in the 80s-90s? Sure let’s look at it.
But I think of ppl like Nicolas Cruz, there is literally zero reason to keep him alive.
I understand the point of the innocence project, but I’m guessing when they say x % of people sentenced to death were innocent. Those convictions took place before DNA was refined and the wide use of cameras like you said. I think it’s a BS statistic.
He confessed.
The Innocence Project only exonerates less than .05% of inmates. Most of the exonerated rowers have other convicted violent crimes to their names.
What I find interesting is how many people helped by the innocence project got out and killed someone else. It's a philosophical question really. If you have someone already convicted of a crime that puts them on death row are they still innocent until proven guilty or are they guilty until proven innocent or quilty until someone finds the right technicality with the right judge to grant their freedom.
@@pattihawks353 So? The American police aren't exactly famous for treating susopects well plus there have been a lot of people confessing to crimes they didn't commit.
This is awful reporting with zero understanding of the process by the presenters.
Why do people worry about how he dies his victims suffered….
Of course he was jerking, spasms, etc. It’s the party line. The media people, the spiritual advisor and these two talking heads don’t have a clue. Ask anyone who has “ridden” a high altitude chamber.
The instructors get everyone in the chamber, pair the people up so they are sitting across from each other. Each person on 1 side gets a clip board with instructions on what you’re to write.
Riders are instructed on putting on the mask and doing a purge to oxygenate the blood. Then the outside tenders/operators start simulating going to altitude. When I went thru it in 1983 they took us to 30,000 feet, sat a few minutes, then went to 20,000 feet.
By this time, the “air” inside the chamber has an oxygen partial pressure equal to what one would find at 20,000 feet on top of a mountain.
The outside instructors tell the “riders” with the clip boards to place it in their lap. Take off their oxygen mask and take 3 deep breaths and than do the writing exercises.
In less than 2 minutes they are all “bobble headed” and shortly after that their head flops to one side. The person sitting across jumps over, puts the persons gas mask on and continuously purge until that person “wakes” up.
Nobody got “contortions” or “spasms” or any odd movements (except the bobble head). They just “went to sleep”.
Bullet to the head is fast and painless.
not for the executioner
When I had my dog put to sleep because she was sick that medication was instant what up with that?
43 bullets to the head would be super cheap and painless
I dont feel sry one bit to how this man was executed!!! He didnt worry how the victim took her last breath... I dont understand why ppl protesting other than his next of kin!!! I'm guessing its not "Their" love one that died at his hands or another Murderer locked up on death roll!!! 🇱🇷
They can do anesthesia first? They could not find vein? My doctor never said that and canceled my appointment 😂
Hey Lilia !!!❤
"He didn't lose consciousness in seconds"
"this wasn't pain free"
"Why would anyone choose this method?"
This lady has clearly never done a whippit before
This guy got high af then passed out and died from lack of oxygen
Whippits are nitrous OXIDE, meaning a compound of nitrogen and oxygen. This was just nitrogen, so not the same at all...
My friend was asking me what that method was... I literally said, "Death by Whippits..." lmao
You must of not watched the video or read about how he died. It wasn't peaceful and he wasn't high. He was gasping for air and violently trying to get out of his restraints for several minutes until he died.
Bet he had some ringing in his ears too
@@Clearwood_that's a lie
why not use fentanyl already tested and is painless.
What happen to the leathal injection
Trudeau developed this method in Canada to use in his camps.
It all reminds me that when William Kemmler was executed in the electric chair, he was probably quite relieved that he was facing electrocution, the first to fry at the hands of the state rather than facing the gallows (America's hangmen never had the skill of Britain's executioners). His execution ended up being botched and a witness said infamously that they'd have been better to use an axe. The needle proved to be nowhere near as "...humane as putting an old horse to sleep." as Gov Ronald McDonald once suggested. Apart from limiting the number of blood thirsty gawpers allowed to witness, do the death penalty states of the USA have any right to point fingers at the countries of the "Islamic World" and elsewhere that execute offenders at a similar or greater rate?
Some Americans:
Death Penalty is very controversial
Nazis that were executed for crimes: 😳👀🤔🧐
Title should be: "How Alabama's first Nitrogen Gas Execution RESPIRED".
What's the big deal? I believe several states you can actually choose your form of execution including firing squad. Remember Gary Gilmore, he chose the firing squad because he said he wanted to go out like a man.
I am sure the victims deaths were not humane at all.In fact I would state 100 percent of them were not. The rights of the life taker who soaks up taxpayer dollars for 35 years in a cell is already stupid. Let alone caring how a murderer feels when he is executed. I would ask you to go interview those whose family members were murdered inhumane like if they care if he feels anything or not. I would guess a high number would not AT ALL.
I'm seriously trying to understand why it took 35 years. I understand how the system works, the appeals process, etc. I am familiar with several men who were incarcerated by being found guilty of a crime they did not commit, and were exonerated after 2+ decades. I am glad they weren't a statistic of innocent put to death, they're phenomenal men and women. How do 2 wrongs make a right? They don't...why, after 35 years did they finally set his execution, botch it (along with 3 others that year in AL) and 15 months later use a method that was not accepted until 5 months ago. Alabama wanted to set a precedent, they are the 1st to use this type of execution, well I hope that bodes well for them.
If he was black they wouldn't care how long he suffered.
As a first hand experience it's not exactly the same, but other than almost instantly going unconscious, I had no problems with a sudden massive CO2 gas exposure.
One Halloween my family stored some dry ice (frozen CO2/Carbon Dioxide) in a _horizontal_ freezer...also called a chest freezer.
(note: dry ice is commonly placed in water to make "fog" effects).
To get some of the stored dry ice I opened the freezer top and leaned _deep_ down into the freezer to grab the container. I remember as I touched the handles I took in a deep breath to start my lift and...
*_I was unconscious before I even knew what happened_*
It must have knocked me out almost immediately as I don't remember lifting the container and it later looked like it hadn't been disturbed from its original position in the freezer.
NO PAIN OR OTHER NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS
I felt nothing but do remember a weird taste, and a slight "buzzed" feeling just before I passed out.
That may have been due to the deep breath I had taken of the CO2 gas, as I've read that slow asphyxiation from CO2 buildup can be very uncomfortable and produces severe headaches.
Background info:
WHAT CAUSED THE CO2 GAS TO ACCUMULATE?
The dry ice had sublimated CO2 gas the all days it was stored in the freezer. That CO2 gas was held-in by the primary insulating liner of the freezer, and eventually replaced most if not all the oxygen that would normally be retained in the well of the freezer. CO2 gas is heavier than oxygen gas, so as the dry ice kept out-gassing the CO2 gas, the lighter oxygen gas was pushed out of the freezer through the seal of the door. The interior of the freezer was likely almost 100% CO2 gas by the time I opened the freezer.
Very fortunately I fell back onto the floor behind me. I woke up several minutes later. If instead I had fallen forward into the freezer I think it's highly likely I would have suffocated.
With all due respect, your experience is nowhere close to what execution by this gas is like. Sounds like you're lucky you fell backward.
@@malm2666 Please explain WHY it would be different? I go totally unconscious within seconds of taking a breath. If I'm quickly removed from the gas I revive. If I don't, I die and having never regained consciousness, would never know it.
edit to add: Not trying to be contrary...truly interested in understanding any differences.
Its not humane
Unpopular opinion but im gonna say it anyway. As a non-american i find it kinda disturbing that the death penalty is still being carried out in a western country(or atleast in some states). Americans are a pretty Christian folk for what we outsiders know and i find it weird that they have "an eye for an eye" mentality in this. Thats not very Christian now is it? (For the record im not religious at all). I just find it weird.
Now in this particular case . Why weren't they more open on this method and how it went down? Basically this prisoner was used as a guinea pig to see "how it goes" I mean what he did to his victim is pretty cruel and cold-blooded but so is doing this to him...
Also they say the prisoner had high anxiety but i think all of the death row inmate have that when their date comes closer.
Sick.
Stop experiment
I do not and will not understand how they were unable to find a vein in their first attempt with lethal injection. I have a lot of experience with drawing blood from veins in a clinical and hospital setting. There are ultrasound machines that can be used when it's difficult to locate a vein for use, whatever that may be. 3 times Alabama failed at it in 2022, I call bullshi* and think there should be an investigation started. I am putting time into researching this case and all things regarding over the past 30+ years Smith was in prison. It sickens me that this system is failing, I have the utmost respect for Mrs Stennet and her family, I can't imagine the heinous act committed by Smith. Accountability was obviously established, if anyone can shed light on why it took this many decades to finally get the execution done, please share with me.
And I have a rare vein, disease called nutcracker syndrome, and they can’t get me even with ultrasound because my veins are not anatomically normal. You may be the best, but you wouldn’t get a vein on me. I guarantee that and I bet your life on it.
This is my question as well. I have a connective tissue disorder and history of many blood clots that have f-up my veins pretty bad and am extremely hard stick. I have a permanent central line now for this reason, but there’s been many times in emergencies they’ve had to go straight for the jugular (and still taken many attempts to get it in) and in worst case scenario they could go OI. It just seems odd to me that it was just so easily failed when there are options to establish IV access in extremely difficult situations.
@@rowennaclark6175 i’m the same they have to go into my neck and one time I was in critical condition and they stuck me 20 times in one night and missed all of them and had to get a doctor from another hospital to drive over to save my life because I have Addison’s disease and needed an emergency injection of synthetic cortisol to survive. The people that would be performing these procedures in jail are not the most skilled at hard cases like this they don’t have the funding for the best professionals.
@@rowennaclark6175 yo you got Ehler Danlos for sure. Do you have nutcracker? Pots? Mcas? Gastroparesis? There’s a genetic link between these. Autoimmune diseases are like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re getting and you never get just 1
Remember when the T1000 was frozen and shattered in T2 by the Terminator? Imagine someone's lungs being frozen and shattered from the inside out using Nitrogen.
Do you know how illiterate this state is? They communicate with names. They do not know how to articulate a belief and complete sentence structure. They are not trained at conversation and they are comfortable with their home even their forms of locking people up. They go to extremes and they would use names in jail to communicate a conversation because that is accepted in this society. They would do that execition and also be saying these are Your genes Smith. Thus the name Eugene Smith. They are "ers" that means yours can be communicated as ers. Which could also mean hers or even heirs. They know what they mean when they emphasis the word. Its amazing. I would say if you are not from her do not allow your name to be pulled. They do not adhere to the laws of proper or improper nouns and those are legal requirements to identify this name as a proper noun and not broken english. Which this city was founded by the cousin of the Poet Alan Poe of Twickenham, England and Huntsville, Alabama was originally named Twickenham after said proper noun above. -Reporting from Huntsville, Alabama a resident by birth, a Texas who has been a victim of theft since the age of eighteen.
Other forms of illiteracy they tell us that benefits plans that we pay for are just a bill and they on the poor side of town where the theft originated should be efit from my file cabinet documents. I do not go to the black side of town because crime levels are higher and that is a crime I avoided and they still committed a crime against me.
They probably promised the inmates things or money
Leave it to CBS to play this guy as the victim. He went in a much gentler way than his victim.
Buddy. No matter how he killed the victim. The 8th amendment still exists.
Genesis 9:6
King James Version
6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
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All im hearing is its death by suffocation this is inhumane omg
Little shop of horrors or what?
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Wonder why not helium isn’t that painless unless your innards explode? (Not saying this dude didn’t deserve a painful death)
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That's qazy with a capital Q for real dog!
Transpired? Cold blooded.
Strangely, they crucifixied him...
Barbaric
I agree these reporterettes' sympathetic comments are barbaric.
Our state diesnt have the death penalty.
My Condolences for the waste of your tax money
Actually costs more in death penalty cases due to appeals .
@@richhauxwell7848death penalty literally costs more then life
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*For DJT and his co-thugs it will need some alterations.*
Is this a threat? Sounds like a threat to a Presidential candidate.
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I am sending a screenshot of your comment to the FBI and the Secret Service they will check to see if you just made a threat to the President
@@webmastersofsnowflake lol
You will be judged .
Inhumane. Prayers and condolences
For whom?
@@MonGoalianhis victims that the fools don't care about.
A county which utilizes the death penalty is clearly a country in the medieval realm.
Well done America!
@jayboom uhh..Some cities have 100s of murders in a weekend here in America..I dare say some of our citizens behaviors make the medieval period look like a walk in the park!!
To me if you survive a botched execution you should be allowed life without parole. This is cruel on all levels and should have the higher courts stop Alabama in their tracks. I would bet if you forced everyone in that room to go through that procedure they would choose a different option.
He was a MURDERER!! Do you think he cared about his victims pain and suffering???
@@Floridaredwing25
They just don't get it what will it take for people to understand that.
So wrong
I’m sorry about your Governor Huckleberry.
So you care more about the perp than the victim
Death penalty is barbaric.
it's in the bible..."eye for an eye, tooth for tooth...life for life."
Dylann Roof was barbaric, you suggesting we should just let him live?
Not compared to what he did to his victim....
@@Georgeal4422. Fortunately, we don’t live in a christian caliphate. Leave your book of fairy tales out of my secular government.
Oh, and I’ll wait patiently for the empirical evidence that proves the existence of divinity.
NO! it is not!
This is absolutely barbaric. In my sanctuary state, he would have been released under our restorative justice policy. Vote blue like your life depends on it. 💙💙
Are you crazy
@@owensullivan9595 this is what you call a bleeding-heart liberal"... I wonder how he/she would feel if it had been THEIR loved one had been murdered by this man.
If you were a judge you'd definitely be the type to parole a domestic abuser.
You're joking, right? 😮😂l
Go ask the victims family and see how they feel, let me guess you live in California