"The Most Horrible Thing I've Ever Seen": Alabama Uses Nitrogen Gas to Execute Prisoner
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 29 янв 2024
- Support our work: democracynow.org/give
Ohio lawmakers are taking the “next steps to kickstart” their execution chamber with experimental nitrogen gas, just days after Alabama used the same method for the first time in U.S. history, which the U.N. has warned is a form of torture. Alabama officials claim the execution was humane and effective, but we speak with Kenneth Smith’s spiritual adviser, Rev. Jeff Hood, who was there and says it was “the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen.”
Transcript: www.democracynow.org/2024/1/3...
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET.
Subscribe to our Daily Email Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
How much does a bullet cost in America?
All sent to Israel
Last time I was in a hardware store, they had rope. It's even reusable.
$1.00
@princessana2233 more accurately, they have all been sent to Ukraine
to messy. why they dont use 15 Grams of Natrium-Pentobarbital like assist suizide in switzerland?
Its pain free.
All that Fentanyl that’s been confiscated lately...what can they do with that?
Now you're thinking but you see the fentanyl is to get rid of the homeless I mean let's be honest that's what they're trying to do but you see man evil ways are counteracted by a higher authority because ironically as you see more buildings being built you get more homeless how can that be
A overdose seem more peaceful than this
Let the CIA resell it to fund black budget projects
Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, that was all propaganda. It's not anywhere near as deadly as they wanted the public to believe, that was just an effort to scare everyone and increase their already outrageous police budgets . It was roundly criticized by the medical community, the media just doesn't report on it because they work for the cops. Its lethality is mostly due to the unknown and unregulated manufacturing of street drugs. That's the irony of the drug war, it made drugs MORE dangerous. Also, I understand your position, I hate evil people too we agree there, but giving your government the power to kill with inhumane, cruel and unusual punishments, is not the type of thing you want them getting their hands on. Unless you just REALLY love the government and think they are perfect in everyway, beyond reproach, every person convicted is guilty of every crime. This is at least the 3rd time in my life I've seen them fail at an execution leading to a horrible, tortuous, public, death. It might change your mind to see it happen. I remember talking that way when I first heard of a story like this when I was younger. Until I looked up the video and saw the guy screaming "it's not working", and writhing around in panicked agony. Can't remember what they used but I believe it was some sort of injection. Do you really trust your government with the power to expedite executions with experimental street drugs? They can't even get it right as is.
You would think.
This just feels so hypocritical how no one is talking about the deceased victim that he tortured ❤😢
Just in the comments
Yes it's sad but if we are no better than the murderer himself in our own ethics and decision making, what will eventually happen to the world?
Speaking does not make them come back and revenge neither.. make peace with your own soul when you wish the worst for another!!!!
Retribution is not justice. By allowing the state to kill people for killing people, it's condoning of murder as systematically a-okay, and is itself a hypocritical position to take. By murdering for murder you get two murders for the piece of one, when divine retribution isn't supposed to be in the hands of humans or the state. Rip to the victims, but an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
@@VicktoriaTacosYou seem to think we live in a fantasy world which can be reasoned into our desires. Well, the Holy Bible says that God can change people, so maybe you are right! I don't think that man changed, though. Anyway, we will find out on Judgement Day!
We should be talking about the victim the brutal way she was killed and the pain she endure. Rip
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Based
Life imprisonment meaning life gives him decades to think about the pain and suffering he caused.
Death penalty does change it?
What about the satisfaction feeling lawmakers must have while watching the execution? Some of them probably experience orgasms in a red state that is what counts more, above anything else. Once you die, the means doesn't really matter for the executed
I have to wonder what the victim felt as she was being bludgeoned and stabbed to death.
Spread the evil? 🤔
@@annab13 Are you concerned by the way this guy died?Do you think he was commensurately concerned with the pain and suffering his victim experienced?
@@lv4077
Do you believe that everyone put to death is guilty, 100% of the time?
@@lv4077 Unfortunately, the justice system isn't perfect
@@lv4077 Do you think 10 minutes of suffering is commensurate of the victims suffering? 🤔
How did he kill his victim ? Probably not in a humane way!!
It was beyond horrible. Blunt force, galvanized pipe, knife stabbings and everything
But how will i virtue signal and show everyone how righteous and superior i am?
@@wyattgeorge9696 The Left's go-to stance on _ANYthing_
You are evil
@@galmlrssg210badass but gross and inhumane
No shortage of misinformation on this subject. Nitrogen gas N2 is non toxic, non reactive, it does not chemically kill. N2 displaces oxygen, it has a larger molecule and can block out oxygen from getting into someone's lungs if enough N2 is present. If you inhale N2, you will get a very satisfying lung fill and have no idea there was no oxygen in that deep breath. Next, the lack of oxygen has a intoxicating effect lasting a short period until unconsciousness. From people that have recovered from an N2 event in an industrial setting, they all report just falling asleep. The person that inhaled N2 would have passed out and had their heart and lungs stop. Then, their nervous system would have convulsed possibly sensing low oxygen and involuntarily working their diaphram. They would be dead before the convulsions. What I mostly concerned about is his victim. Did she suffer when he killed her?
Thanks Scientist.
Is nitrogen hypoxia significantly different than helium? That’s the gas of choice for end of life bags and recommended as being painless.
Why are you asking? If you’re sure of the information you’ve given, wouldn’t it conclude that she would not have suffered?
That’s what I wanted to post and they didn’t let me I thought we had freedom of speech but I guess now we don’t which is bull crap.🤐
@@lucia50emobviously there is freedom of speech if they were able to make this comment
The fact people feel sorry for someone who has committed the kind of crime that lands you on deathrow is laughable.
Or scarey.
If you condone torture, you are just as bad
It's what leftists do.
The fact that people think capital punishment is still an option in a civilised world is laughable.
Those are the woke liberals
I wonder how their victims feel about their pain.....
not human so it doesn't matter. Not human from the moment of conviction. It was because of who he WAS
They always feel bad for the criminals.
This thread is full of idiots. What makes us human is our ability to think beyond animalistic behavior. The moment you revert to that level is the moment you’re no longer human, becoming what you actually hate.
@@SabbatarianCalvinist People are wrongly executed in an imperfect system. Ask Jesus.
@@SabbatarianCalvinistyep, these days the criminals ALWAYS come before the victims.
What this dude is describing is absolutely NOT consistent with nitrogen hypoxia. I’m not a death penalty advocate…I never have been…but I AM a pilot and I’ve seen numerous hypoxia experiments, heard firsthand accounts of hypoxia and even studied cases where it caused accidents. Nitrogen hypoxia causes you to feel drunk and loopy, you lose consciousness and your brain eventually shuts down from lack of oxygen. Maybe there are convulsions associated with that but it’s long after you’ve slipped into unconsciousness. Theres no “clean” way to kill someone. You still have to do something dramatic enough to take their life and that’s not gonna be pretty. But nitrogen hypoxia is among the least “brutal” ways you could go about it…only surpassed by a barbiturate overdose which seems like it’s probably the *actual* easiest way to go in medical terms. Again, I’m not a death penalty advocate…I’m just stating what I *know* to be true.
If the prisoner was struggling he might have been doing it consciously to try to escape the mask.
Who cares, bet if it had been your two family members that he murdered you'd be crying a different tune
@@bme6949
That’s called an appeal to emotion. It’s a millennias-old logical fallacy and the number one reason we don’t allow victims and the unimpartial to sit on juries
I want to agree with you but I hate people who capitalize/bold/italicize/quote random words. Also using ellipses instead of commas is just dumb.
@@manifestgtr Telling people they are using a logical fallacy has never convinced anyone of anything. Between this and your typing style you may spend too much time on Reddit.
I live in Alabama and don't know one person who is upset over it.
The only people who are upset about this are people who support widespread criminality, and don't want criminals to be held responsible for their actions. In other words, "Radical Leftists"...
Yep no care given here either from Texas!
You must live a lonely life.
@@ReasonableForseeabilityNo doubt she does! Miserable and dried up
That's why direct democracy can only be a backward totalitarian theocracy. Uneducated rednecks shouldn't decide the important matters.
Why do people care so much about the pain a murderer incurs in his execution? Did anyone review how his victims died?
most folk don't , only professionals and trolls
Because the government shouldn't have the power to torture people to death. It's literally in the Constitution, the thing we all once respected. I can't even imagine worshipping your government so much you support them experimenting on inmates. They factually get convictions wrong all the time, and you wanted them to have even less oversight than now. And expedite the process. Not trying to be insulting, but it sucks that this has become a mainstream ideology. When you start sharing beliefs with Nazi Germany, it's time to reconsider your path in life.
Obligatory bad guys are bad, accusing me of sympathizing with criminals is not a defense or torture. "No cruel and unusual punishment" wasn't a liberal idea that the Founding Fathers adopted because they side with criminals.
... only the Lord is infallible; what if 'he/she' wasn't ?!
because lacking true empathy, they gin fake empathy up for the 'victim' here - the killer - because he's the public face; the real victim is dead and buried, so no public compassion points to be mined there
Two wrongs dont make a right. You cant become what you abhor.
So the victim Elizabeth Sennett was murdered by Smith, at the request of her husband, a Christian pastor. The pastor wanted his wife’s insurance money. The husband killed himself once he knew the jig was up. Isn’t that just precious?
American "Christianity" in action.
Most of the barbarism and authoritarianism and domestic terrorism in this country is informed primarily by Christianity.
@@derk3933tell that to the victims of the Crusade, Inquisition, and conquests innumerable
@@derk3933ever heard of the Crusades? Jesus was a peace advocate but very few people who call themselves Christians actually follow the teachings of Jesus as put forth in the New Testament. There are quite a few religions that are more peaceful than Christianity and some sects of Christianity that are better at following the peaceful ways of Jesus. Quakers are one example. People create God in their own image more often than not.
@@derk3933 Gandhi famously said, "I would be a Christian but I've met too many Christians." And it's as accurate as it can get.
Let me help you out. The man you mentioned by name was on death row for stabbing 45 year-old Elizabeth Sennett to death on 3/18/1988.
Only 1 kill
Not even a double or triple kill
Hospitals kill more
Derek Chauvin only got 21 years for murdering 46 year old George Floyd 25/5/2020
So logic indicates on more then 40 years
That's who they should be talking about
So... they waited 30+ years to kill this guy? Thats all I'm upset about. I know there's an appeal process and all that BS but come the F on! Justice in this country is slow.
@@geovannis7340Then please leave and try Iran or North Korea. More to your liking
What's your point?
Imagine how the wife felt being stabbed.
All the effects he is describing is from fear of dying… not from the nitrogen… sounds like he has seen total recall too many times. He was given a much more humane dispatch than what he gave his victim.
Exactly what I was thinking! He is describing the effects of Mars supposed atmosphere! 😂
My understanding is that he held his breath for the first 2 minutes, then lost consciousness within the next 2 minutes and then convulsed until dead.
He apparently fought a 10 year court battle against lethal injection and this was the alternative
He was playing the system. They all play the system.
I figure this guy isn’t totally honest
The least of these are the innocent... not guilty criminal. So it could be safe to say that he is against Hamas and the genocidal attacks it committed on October 7, 2023... Correct? 🇮🇱
What about the torture and pain the victim went through? Why worry about the criminal’s pain?
Truth.
Let's all seriously ponder that.
Because this is a liberal channel. They don't think like that. They only want to feel good about themselves.
It's called having a sense of humanity. Two wrongs doesn't make a right, you wouldn't even put down a rabid dog like that. And do I need to remind you that several inmates on death row has been convicted despite being innocent and been fully pardoned before it was too late?
Seems pretty obvious to me that in this particular case, the man was convicted to death. By that logic, it's reasonable to assume that the executioner would use a method that guarantees the expected outcome and does so with the only intent to end his life.
That's the reason why US will not join the civilized world in a long time. US has power, dollars and corporations , and many citizens think that being the more powerful country is the same as having the highest moral.
Look at the rest of developed Western countries: they have lower crime rates without executing anybody, with a lower rate of prisoners and with shorter sentences.
US people (most of, anyway) like their system just because of revenge, not to fight the crime (look other countries).
Many US conservatives and "Christians " don't realize they are against Jesus. Jesus never endorsed vengeance but just the opposite. The only time he used a "weapon" was against people making MONEY in the temple, not against criminals or as a defense.
In short, US continues to be a powerful half developed country, halfway between the 21st century and the old Wild West. Just like the Soviet Union was a powerful country full of failures. Superpower is not the same as super advanced.
The only pity I have are for the victims of these prisoners, and the family and loved ones who suffer. We tend to forget.
What about the innocent people who are executed? There are more than one or two.
@@michaelsteane9926was this individual innocent ?
I don't know, but the US judicial system is seriously flawed.@@scottshumaker4969
Watch some more positive videos bro, your rotting your brain with this content.
They forgave him.
Did that man witness the horrific murder of the woman the man killed
He was hired by her husband - a Pastor"....Smith crept up on Elizabeth and decided to beat her. As Elizabeth struggled for her life; a "fireplace set, a walking cane, and a piece of galvanized pipe" were used to beat her. Parker also later joined Smith in beating her. After Elizabeth was beaten, she was then stabbed eight times with the survival knife, which caused her death..."
@@blackops844 He confessed and stood by his statements for years.
@@blackops844 Yes it really is messed up, they have innocent men in prisons long term, for life, till death, and those ppl need justice. At the same time we have ppl who like you said not detoured by the laws, or even the death sentence. They will continue to commit the most heinous of crimes, and are often set free over and over again. Rapists, child molesters, brutal killers. Those who do the unspeakable cannot be allowed back into the public and it is incredibly expensive to house and feed these ppl who are so far gone that they can never be safely returned to the public world. There are ways that are cheap and painless to end a person, they use things like opiates on dying patients in hospitals and hospice. In Canada they are killing almost anyone who asks to be killed...even teenagers and veterans, oh yeah but they wouldn't cover the treatment costs to help that veteran recover from her injury.
People have their morals broken, your morals and values shouldn't change because your "friends" had their minds changed...all for the government ..👊 yeah!😑
@@blackops844 So dead people don't matter only the living? You do not murder a murderer. A murder pays a debt that cannot be satisfied any other way but a forfeiture of his own life.
YOU'RE RIGHT in these cases we should always look at what the crime to at least check what happened.
There's a Wikipedia page on this and it includes details of the crime.
SORRY for the length of the reply.
The Reverend Charles Sennett Sr. hired Billy Gray Williams who then hired Kenneth Smith and John Forrest Parker to help him kill Elizabeth Sennett the reverend's wife. *Williams paid Smith and Parker $1,000 each plus extra money to buy a gun. They opted to NOT buy a gun and spent the money on drugs.*
On Wikipedia it states _"Smith crept up on Elizabeth and decided to beat her. As Elizabeth struggled for her life; a "fireplace set, a walking cane, and a piece of galvanized pipe" were used to beat her. Parker also later joined Smith in beating her. After Elizabeth was beaten, she was then stabbed eight times with the survival knife, which caused her death."_
If that doesn't meet the details for depraved indifference I don't know what does.
THAT SAID HOWEVER I also agree that this method is clearly meets the grounds of cruel and unusual punishment AND YES there's a simple alternative.
A number of years ago when the execution debate was being raised in Britain an English documentary maker looked at the methods. I saw this documentary on Fairfax Media's _"Melbourne Age"_ website before they made it a pay for view. The film maker found that Carbon Dioxide is used to stun and kill animals. Its very quick and clean because it can cause unconsciousness in seconds. Most of the time animals are then blead to death without trauma. I remember the 1986 Lake Nyos disaster in northwestern Cameroon when a cloud of CO2 gas killed 1,746. It was so quick that most of the victims just stopped where they were with only a few of them taking anything more than a few steps.
The reason why I remember this was because in the documentary the film maker approached the chief medical officer in America (I forget if he was federal or state) and said there's an alternative that's very quick and painless in fact a person might experience a moment of euphoria just before passing out. The response of the medical office still chills me to this day. I can't remember his exact response other than the last words. His reply to the film maker started with (I think) "I'm not interested." but definitely finished with _"Its a punishment. Its not meant to be nice."_
Kenneth Smith is certainly guilty of depraved indifference but I would also contend the people responsible for how he was put to death are also guilty of depraved indifference especially when there is a painless alternative to putting people to sleep painlessly.
@@JR-bj3uf jesus did say - "let the dead bury the dead. we need to look after the living.." and the buddha would agree.. Mohamed would leave it up to the family of the victim to decide.. i can't see any virtue to the state on behalf of everyone else - killing someone ??
imagine how the families of murdered victims must feel about this interview 🤔💔
What about the pain and needless suffering he caused Mrs. Sennett?
Why is everyone concerned? People need to remember what this guy and other people on death row have done, they are not on death row for handing out cups of tea and flowers to old ladies.
I guess what it all comes down to is yes there are monsters in this world and on death row,we move on by being and thinking in a more human matter than in a vengeful one.
Also, you're ok with giving governments even more power and freedom over what they can do to you?
If that flag you're using on your profile is any indication as to where you're from, then you should know all too well that you cannot trust governments with such powers.
@@tronray4479 f' all that rainbow and unicorn crap, eye for an eye
They're not!?!?
@@wyattgeorge9696Shut up "tough guy"
The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn anything from history
Or that history repeats itself.
Exactly @@johnschomer7790
History doesn't repeat, but it certainly rhymes.
We can learn a lot from history, unless we live in states and countries that ban it (lookin at you, Florida).
Not sure what history has to do with anything in this case.
The man was not "g@ssed" to death as the presenter put it, in intentionally emotive terms.
The inmate was given Nitrogen to breathe, essentially fresh air with the oxygen removed, and at normal pressure.
Holding your breath gives you a build up of CO2 in your blood, that's what gives you the desperate need to take another breath.
If they'd used CO2 or suffocation I'd agree it was inhumane. Hypoxia is pretty tame, none of the physiological urgency to breathe.
Sounds like a convicted murderer tried to use violence to defeat hypoxia. Strange that.
Edit: had to put the @ symbol there as comment was repeatedly deleted without it
@michelehemlokhexwhite4310 gas chambers doesn't ring a bell???
I have absolutely no empathy for smith at all, let us not forget about the victim & the pain & suffering she went through, may she RIP 🕊🙏🕊
Question? What was the death of his victims like?
What about the victim? He killed someone
So did a lot of other people who didn't get the death penalty for it. Why did they decide to put this guy on death row when there are a lot of other people in prison for life doing the same exact thing.
@@Dan-di9jdhe won the death lottery
@@Dan-di9jd you sir have a good argument. maybe they should give the rest of them death sentences, is that what you're implying? Because I mean the idea that you're saying they shouldn't have given this guy the death sentence would just seem absurd to me.
Yeah sure I mean I guess if punishment was equal in our justice system then it would make sense. I'm guessing if you committed the same crime in California, for example, you could probably get a very light sentence compared to if you did the crime where he's at and get death. But as it stands, the death penalty is unequal where if you commit it in one state you're essentially free from it but not so in another. Also, it makes plea deals much more difficult in non-death penalty states where criminals know they'd get life but they're not willing to give any information because they won't get a lighter sentence for it (like saying where they hid the body or motives, etc)@@streetrider1001
@@Dan-di9jdbecause
How can physicians perform intensive surgery with no pain felt by the patient, but a state can’t perform painless induced death during induced sleep?
Are the anesthesia drugs too expensive or something?
Actually, yes, in addition the US has literally always been too stupid to make it.
And remember no doctors are ever involved in execution.
It's all a show!
Physicians take an oath to do no harm and do not assist with executions so state corrections departments and law makers bumble around without any medical background. On top of that, some drug companies have decided that don’t want the liability of their drugs being used that way. It’s just a big mess. I’m not opposed to the death penalty in principle for certain crimes but I think our government and courts are just too flawed to be trusted with that authority. And look at the cost of these programs. Money that could be used to do good things.
@@judelarkin2883 I have no doubt that there exists at least a single anesthesiologist out there who’s willing to consult the government on how to make a lethal cocktail that induces painless sleep and passing.
And it’s not like it needs to be made with super high standards of health, given its purpose. A shifty chemistry set could probably pump out enough for a year’s worth of the stuff in a few weeks at acceptable standards. And there’re obviously people out there who’d be willing to follow a recipe to make it, given that there’re people who’re willing to administer it.
If we’re gonna do/try it, at least don’t make it torturous.
the drugs used for executions were hard to come by and the manufacturers I think would not sell them the drugs anymore.
So, how do you think the victim died - did the murderer care? Murderers forfeited their right to live ⚖️.
Yes, indeed, but be careful about medical experiment and torture, if you do these things, you have joined the murderer
@@herbertsmith6085Yes. All these people are ones I'd watch out for... they're the type to jump on bandwagons... followers
How did his victims feel???
I find the death penalty repugnant
I know this is unrealistic, but if 1) the laws fairly judged people, 2) euthenasia was made perfectly painless, and 3) the funds allocated for life sentences without parole were re-allocated to fund social programs,
Would you still be opposed or would the good outweigh the bad in that circumstance? I think it would.
@@Syzygy_Bliss unfortunately humans are fallible it was 2 horrendous cases of innocent people going to the gas chamber only to be exonerated many years later through DNA and new technology when eventually law enforcement caught up with the guilty parties that made my mind up for me
Some people lose their earth privileges
@AntheaDeVilliers - Do you find murder 'repugnant'?
@@Syzygy_Bliss would we all get a free pack of anal beads?
"The Most Horrible Thing I've Ever Seen? Do you mean the stabbing of the victim?
Save us your virtue signalling please 🙄🙄🙄
Olaf "victim blamer" Henson.
@@thomas2236 want to explain your thought process behind that one? The mental gymnastics to get to me being a victim blamer is crazy
I saw the headline and thought you were describing his victim, Elizabeth Sennett, who had been beaten with a fireplace implement and stabbed repeatedly in the chest and neck.
Really, despite the heading? Go back to school.
Sarcasm escaping the simple? Or another advocate for killers? Supporter of the Innocence Project shown to maul fact and truth in pursuit of an ideology, not truth? Shove off. @@rowredround7206
There's creative reading just as there is creative writing. Calling attention to horrors experienced by his victim certainly justifies its use.@@rowredround7206
Why don't they focus on how much agony and painful breaths the victims experienced when they were brutally murdered? 😡 The media is feeling sorry for the wrong group of people.
It is because the media is made up of immoral, unethical, Godless Marxists. They hate you and I.
I was friends with an innocent man who spent 14 years on deathrow because the deeply racist prosecutor in Louisiana hid the evidence (blood sample) that showed my friend's innocence. My friend was finally released, he then set up an organization to help exonerated and innocent ex-convicts after their release and helped so many people because he knew only too well what it means to be the victim of an arbitrary racist judicial system and backwardness. He was an inspiration to so many people. Unfortunately he died far too young from a heart attack which goes to show just how much he must have suffered. He too fought against the death penalty because it's wrong, it's cruel and inhumane beyond belief! And you know what? Photographs were recovered which show his prosecutor sitting at his office desk with miniature figures on a miniature electric chair that showed all the prisoners for whom he had "achieved" a death sentence as if they were his trophies. How evil and sick is this???
Very sick and evil. Very
Yep, it's Nazti, but to be fair to Blacks they're only there because Whites brought their ancestors here. They should be grateful they were slaves in America instead of Africa, which they most likely would have been, as that's how Africans rolled - enslaving rival tribes.
EXACTLY
And it happens all of the time!
Awful
Was his death more horrifiying then when the homicides he committed?
*Exactly*
the way i see it is , was the victim given a choice?! Why the killer get treated better than the victim??!
If you think that killer was treated better than his victim then you have some very strange ideas. Two wrongs still don't make a right.
In the case of Smith, you went from kill to over-kill didnt you?
@@ChristineFisher123 "...Smith crept up on Elizabeth and decided to beat her. As Elizabeth struggled for her life; a "fireplace set, a walking cane, and a piece of galvanized pipe" were used to beat her. Parker also later joined Smith in beating her. After Elizabeth was beaten, she was then stabbed eight times with the survival knife, which caused her death..." Who did the over-kill here? His price point? Just 2000 dollars!
@robotv8707 I am aware of how bad Smith's crime was. And he ought to have been punished for it, and he was, punished for it!
The details of this poor lady's murder have been put to me so many times now, that I must know it by heart.
But when does a person stop paying for their crime? Must they pay for it in perpetuity?. Is there any forgiveness, clemency, ,mercy in your penal system?
That Smith is now dead has done nothing to alleviate the anger towards him. Neither can there ever be closure for the victim's family.. The pain seemingly goes on, despite his now completed execution.
Also, that his victim was a woman might have only increased the animosity towards Smith. Had his victim been a man, would that have afforded the same amount of consideration and controversy... I wonder.?
We shall never agree about the death penalty. You obviously agree with it, as does a good friend of mine. But we agree to disagree on some points since we are such good friends.
I am against DP as so many others are (I only have to read the forums).
The debates will rage on long after Smith is forgotten. I hope his victim will be remembered...but sadly she can't be brought back.
Bye.
What did his victims experience?
How does someone care about the pain and suffering of a killer's execution? What about the damage and harm the convict did to those families by taking away their family members?
They’re not exclusive. It is possible to care about both. Revenge is not justice. That her family might want him to suffer makes sense but it’s not appropriate for a society. That’s why we supposedly have impartial justice.
@@rowredround7206They dont have the ability to comprehend. Keep things basic and simple for this special segment of society 👌
Almost like cruelty is the REAL religion in USA...
Almost???
You mean Satanism.
It's almost certainly more humane than any method used formerly. Inert gas asphyxiation is considered painless as it allows for the exchange of Co2., and it doesn't help anyone to exaggerate or distort the truth by calling it "torture". To use this as the basis for an argument against capital punishment undermines that argument rather than strengthens it. I appreciate Democracy Now's coverage of so many events, though politically I'm probably not very close to its average viewer. While I don't mind editorial content, I think it's important to reserve the word "torture" for when it actually applies.
If cruelty is the religion than I’m a pagan
Yes - it’s overrun with the deception, bloodshed, and other evil injustices of Satanic godlessness. But if you mention “God”, “Satan”, or warnings from God’s Holy Scriotures here, your comment gets deleted by the Satanic godless.
The USA is sick
Well, they have been known to play around with coronaviruses and to mandate dodgy vaccines. Then there are the food additives, the hacking off the ends of baby boys' penises and poisoning kids with fluoride tablets. Even the schools don't feed the kids healthy food and they bus their kids to school instead of letting them walk. They are so lazy that they don't even park their cars and walk into a takeaway, but queue up in their cars. They claim to be Christians but they fail to acknowledge that, 'the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil'. I wish they'd keep their culture to themselves instead of exporting it around the globe.
The South especially.
@@twistedoperator4422 big cities: hold my beer
Why?
2 Chronicles 7: 14
The most horrrible thing he has ever seen.... the mucus.... did anyone show this "spiritual" advisor any crime scene photos?
Let the man speak for himself now, free speech yada yada blah blah.
Did you get that "his spiritual advisor" has done this 18 times? And what Reverend keeps a skull in his bookcase? (just look)
It seems there is never a shortage of bleeding hearts who have the utmost sympathy for a murderer, but spare not one word for the victim. Notice in this story how no mention is made of Elizabeth Sennett, the innocent woman whom Smith beat and stabbed to death so her husband could collect insurance money on her. I wonder, how much suffering and horror this poor woman went through at this man’s hands? Surely, the minor suffering he might have experienced as he was being sent on his way to hell is of little consequence compared with the suffering he caused.
I appreciate that you and others have shared her name, and the story of her brutal murder. This POS got to live another 36 years.
The news media and these bleeding heart reporters are disgusting. Imagine this woman's last minutes of life, filled with terror and indescribable pain, and the knowledge that not only was she being killed....no one was going to save her.
I HAD A TOOTH REMOVED
I GOT A SMALL SHOT
PASSED OUT
AND THEN I WOKE UP
IF THEY HAD EXECUTED ME I WOULD HAVE NEVER KNOWN
dude u got: nitrous oxide because it is a safe and effective method for sedation.
nitrogen suffocates you!!
next time dont comment on an execution in caps..😑
I think his murder of an innocent woman is horrible and barbaric!!! HE isn't the VICTIM!!
No, they don't tend to execute the victims even in the USA, but they do execute innocent people who are too poor to be able to afford a solicitor, such as Edward Earl Johnson. Those in the 'justice' system would rather send an innocent man (after a couple of innocent bunnies) to the gas chamber, than lose face, admitting that a miscarriage of justice had occurred.
Two wrongs do not make a right.
@@julianaylor4351There's only 1 wrong!
A jury of his peers never sentenced him to death. A judge overrode the decision which should have been overturned in his appeal when AL changed the law so judges couldn't override anymore
@@NopeUghUghAbsolutelyNot
I can live with that..
He didnt suffer as much as his victim did. Think of her and her family before you stand up for this pos.
It’s about justice not revenge. America more in common with st hole nations you pretend to hate then the rest of the western world.
That's good for Alabama. How come no one ever talkes about what the victims went through at no fault of their own....
How much suffering did the victims of the convicted endure? Even Japan, as pacifist a society as there is, has the death penalty.
Then it's not a pacifist society then .
@@dino9071 You don't have to be a weak society to be a pacifist society.
@@potatopotato8360 You should watch Avatar The Last Airbender, or The Incredible, if you think valuing life is weakness. You could learn something.
Pacifism, by definition, is incompatible with taking life, even that of a monster. Here in Australia, we don't have capital punishment, because we're actually a pacifist society.
@@xei2694 Australia is a weak nanny state society. Sorry.
@@potatopotato8360 We don't have a lot of mass shootings, police brutality isn't as big a problem as America. People here generally have a good quality of life. We're also quite happy to have ditched capital punishment. Sorry.
Hypoxia leads to light-headedness and eventually blackout. This condition is well studied air forces around the world because it can affect pilots at high altitude. The desperate gagging reflex we feel when drowning or being suffocated comes from excess CO2 in the blood, NOT from lack of oxygen. Hypoxia is painless. Knowing you are a murderous SOAB and about to meet the final judgement and go to hell , may have caused him some , well diserved, discomfort.
The "witness" Rev. Jeff Hood is a known activist, he is strictly against capital punishment. The prisoner pretended to be suffering when he was holding his breath. Rev. Jeff Hood is also anti police......crazy how dumb the media is
The reverend apparently didn't provide much comfort at the critical time.
Have you died that way? Did a dead person tell you it was painless?
No gigantically ignorant and pathetic human. They have done countless studies on this. A lack of air is not painful. You pass out, then you die. Seriously, how ignorant are you to not know this? Please tell me you werent awarded a degree of any kind!!!@@lisabek72
@@lisabek72 I have personally experienced inert gas hypoxia to the point of unconsciousness on many occasions under controlled circumstances. Let me make this absolutely clear: I have tried with every ounce of my primal survival instincts to discern the moment where unconsciousness begins. It doesn't work like that: your brain stops recording memories, and at some point after that you become clinically unconscious, i.e. you lose all muscle tone, and go limp. In my case I was relaxed, and knew that oxygen would be provided before brain damage occurred, so my subjective experience is this: you have perhaps 15 seconds where you are aware that your breathing is somehow less satisfying, so you breath deeper and faster. Then your universe ceases to exist. Zero. Nothing. With absolutely no warning. What happens next, after fresh air is provided (the body autonomously keeps breathing harder and faster as it becomes aware of the hypoxia) is you regain consciousness, and have no clue what happened. You remember everything up to around 30-60 seconds after starting to breath the gas. Frequently I have experienced deeply profound experiences commonly referred to under the category of the "near death experience". I personally don't see my "life flash before my eyes", but I have unspeakably profound experiences that are nothing snort of lifechanging. After all, my body/mind/soul has no clue that I wasn't about to die, I merely took a number of very solid steps towards clinical death.
Allow me to explain why this execution was so horrifying to watch: the individual knew they were going to die. They were terrified, and they knew that the gas they were inhaling was going to kill them. They fought to stay alive, which is a violent and primal act, and must have been exactly as unpleasant to witness as is described. What has been described is factual.
In essence, he suffered because of the event being an execution. If he had walked into a room of pure nitrogen, he would have felt mildly odd for 15 seconds, collapsed on the floor unconscious within not many more seconds, and died "peacefully" with ZERO, and I mean ABSOLUTELY zero awareness. Inert gas is an unbelievably dangerous workplace hazard because you literally have no clue that you're going to pass out unless the gas has an odour/mouth feel/taste/psychoactive effect etc.
The next part here is key: remember my peaceful and invisible slip into blissful unconsciousness? If I were to remain breathing the inert gas, my skin would turn blue, then livid purple. I would start thrashing, and go into extremely violent convulsions. Literally like the proverbial headless chicken. My brain would be autonomously attempting to do anything possible in it's last stages of function to somehow stop what was happening. Eventually the convulsions cease, the brain becomes hypoxic and the cells within start to die. The heart tissue becomes hypoxic, and is unable to function as a muscle, and stops producing a functional pulse (probably going into a rhythm called "Ventricular Fibrillation"). However, my hypothetical experience of this whole macabre process of clinical death ends at the moment I invisibly slip into unconsciousness. I wouldn't not know that I had died. I would have had only the slightest warnings mentioned above, which hardly count as warnings and are useless in aiding your survival.
So yes, I have been close enough to death to categorically tell you that the moment you fall unconscious, you aren't aware of any of the following events. The only difference is a technicality, in that I didn't go into cardiac arrest. It's a moot point: I wouldn't have had any awareness. My experience of life as a human would have ended as I lost consciousness. Did the inmate suffer? Yes, of course he suffered. He suffered knowing he was going to die, right up until he lost consciousness. He lost consciousness within a number of seconds, and that process was totally and utterly painless and invisible, but the actual EXPERIENCE was of course terrifying right until the moment he passed out. Do not make the mistake of thinking that he suffered at ALL after he passed out. As a medical professional, I can assure you that he was totally unconscious VERY rapidly. Ask a Brazilian Jujitsu fighter to blood choke you, and see for yourself how unbelievably fast you pass out when the brain is started of blood in an instant. However, and I am repeating myself here, his unconscious body DID undergo a violent experience. Think of it as being operated on by a surgeon: you're being exposed to trauma, but you're unaware. That is the be all and end all, anyone who questions a word of what I've just said simply does not understand hypoxia and it's relation to consciousness/awareness.
Did he suffer spiritually? Was he aware, and having an out of body experience, witnessing his own execution? You tell me.... that's beyond my cosmic pay grade. Probably, in my humble opinion.
Why does the news anchor look like she should be cooking potions in a cauldron in the middle of a dark forest?
PENTOBARBITAL AND FENTANYL.... WHAT IS UP WITH THESE PEOPLE? WHO IS MAKING POINTS OR GRIFTING HERE?
And the self important priest managed to murder the whole conversation.
Dear Lord ain't that the thrust.. I mean truth 😅😅😅
Religion is the biggest scam perpetrated upon humans, and the most violent, brutal, barbaric scam into the bargain.
@@jillspence7227 rent free, huh?
I'm against the death penalty but nitrogen is the most painless method. It also creates a brief euphoria before they die. Its not an unknown way to die because people have died this way via euthanasia and in accidents. The only reason it looked bad this time is because the inmate was holding their breath and actively fighting it.
You're blaming the convict?😂
Dude..listen to yourself..
Everybody would hold their breath and fight it, so it would always be bad.
FYI... nobody ever was "euthanised" w nitrogen - it lacks oxygen & literally makes you suffocate. if you aimed for painless passing - the only ways would be morphine overdose or a bullet. And that this has to be discussed is a tragedy by itself..
I know you're right. I've watched a self deliverance. 100 % peaceful
What did the lady look like while she died?
Did his victims feel any pain?
Did he suffer more than his victim?
If even your drug dealer doesn't want to deal drugs to you anymore, is it time to stop?
What is wrong with these people! Now we feel sorry for the murderers who get executed? Really??Did they forget this man was being executed for stabbing a woman to death? How horrifying would that have been to witness??!! To care more about the murderer and his suffering than they do about what this woman went through…. I just can’t wrap my head around how screwed up people are anymore.
Sure is uncomfortable. Leniency to criminals is cruelty to victims!
Drug companies have a moral issue, welding supply companies don't.
Phenobarbital & phenytoin are the drugs used in civilized countries for euthanasia or assisted suicide. Same drugs used by vets 🇺🇸 to kill the millions and millions of unwanted “pets”. I’ve never known a drug company with morals; it’s money for them.
Whats wrong with lead poisoning? Widely available and costs 50cents
"The most horrible thing I've ever seen"? True, I guess you weren't at the scene of the crime to see the convicted murderer smashing in his victim's face.
I’m guessing the victim if you can call him that wasn’t well enough sedated, and struggled and stressed himself knowing he was about to die. Some may call that justice.
Didn't he murder someone?
So Did The Whole US MILITARY MURDER Some One.
I thought this country fought against gas chambers
The nazis won apparently
What happened to the lethal injection
Oh the genocide in Nazi Germany; the USA invited some of those Nazis to the USA, for their knowledge and has been giving weapons to and training the Azov in Ukraine. I don't see the US intervening in the current genocide in Gaza.
I've no words for this.... it makes me literally sick....
Germans used them to kill innocents, hes a murderer.
Truly "holier than thou." 😮
More concern is given to these murders than to the victims, their families & the public at large!
Question A : do you support Donald Trump
Question B : do you support his extradition to Yemen or Iraq for murder
@@avus-kw2f213 Don’t vote for president who can’t make America great without bowing their heads to AIPAC & throwing billions of American tax dollars to other countries.
@@avus-kw2f213 LOL more TDS. Get a shrink.
@@srsmopar3808 what is TDS ?
A Yemen court has sentence Donald Trump to death
Would you be okay if someone who murdered one of your loved ones was living free in luxury in another country
I wonder if Smith’s victim suffered at all 🤔
🌸 What about pain and suffering of victims and family left behind?
I don’t get it, once you do crime and given death penalty, it meant you did something really horrible and lost your rights
If this execution was the most horrific thing he ever saw then he didn’t see the victim get murdered!!
I am sure he wasn't concerned about his victims , he didn't make sure his victims were comfortable.
Oh well so society should be as sick as our worst people? Good thinking.
I’ve watched a video on another news channel on this and I didn’t see that he convulsed for 22 minutes. I read he held his breath for 2 minutes until his body forced him to inhale the nitrogen and then was knocked out, like he fell asleep. I saw nothing about seizures. This man was a murderer; what about his victim? Was she killed ‘humanely’?
The other news channels also fibbed about beheaded babies in Israel while democracy now and a few others told the truth.
The other news channels also fibbed about beheaded babies in Israel while democracy now and a few others told the truth.
The other news channels also fibbed about beheaded babies in Israel while democracy now and a few others told the truth.
The other news channels also fibbed about beheaded babies in Israel while democracy now and a few others told the truth.
The other news channels also fibbed about beheaded babies in Israel while democracy now and a few others told the truth.
As usual, there no sympathy for the victim, only for the murderer who was being held accountable & justice being served. I hope the real victims family got some closure.
Too many idiots in this country. They need to remember we're not a democracy, thank God, or we'd all be screwed.
The air we breathe is 72% nitrogen. The inmate may not have been conscious while making the movements noted.
Will he shouldn't have killed someone and it wouldn't have happened
Alabama: We must show people cruelty and murder is wrong by being cruel and murdering people. Me: Alabama shouldn't even be a state.
@oceantransistor - And who made you a moral arbiter? And where is your compassion for the dead and their families?
@@ryleighloughty3307 you aren't asking for compassion you are asking for vengeance which you equate with justice. Morally bankrupt.
@oceantransistor Once you kill an innocent woman, you can't be trusted.
@@oceantransistorExactly
@@oceantransistor
So, do you want compassion for the killer but not for the families of the murdered person?
How is justice the same as vengeance?
If you disagree with me, why do you label me 'morally bankrupt' instead of debating the point?
And, what is morality to you?
Wonder how much his victims suffered and how much consideration he gave them as they died? I have much more concern for the victims of crime, not the criminal.
Witness: 😢
Me: 🤔 Can you hear that...
The worlds smallest violin playing.
This man struggled to die for what maybe 5 minutes? Elizabeth's death on the other hand took longer to die at the hands of this man when he beat her to death. I have no sympathy. Sorry.
So what about his victim, any recounts about her death, was it humain? Why do they get rights that their victim was denied? STOP!!!!!!! Please do not give this guy any more attention!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did his victims get that chance to be gassed or did he stab choke or beat his victims to death?
I wonder if all these people focusing on the fact that he was a contract killer would want veterans, cops, or federal agents who killed people for money from the US government to meet the same fate.
It is hell! The gate is wide open now.
That's what they always say
I don't get it. How can you have such great empathy for this guy but no empathy for the person he killed and their family. And to the pastor there, isn't "an eye for an eye" in the Bible?
who says people don't have empathy for the victim?
My thoughts and concerns are with the family of this monster’s victim!
Her family had her killed for money.
He said Alabama has done it, like its something to be proud of.
It’s Alabama.. they are
@@hayaq9991
And they like to kiss their cousins
@@PurpleGold. Why would you put a stereotype on a very serious situation if you can't comment something that actually adds to the conversation how about you keep your opinion to
It’s Alabama, a former slave state. They’ve no humanity, what did people expect?
@Purple Gold, do you stereotype all people who are different or is it just southern people?
Democrats pretending to care about others. Now that's precious!
Everyone is so callous until they are in that situation.
Imagine how he would feel if he had seen what the man did to the poor woman.
The man convulsed for 22 minutes before he died… if Alabama thinks that seems humane? Then they need to be *stopped* 22 minutes of seizures isn’t a humane death.
So true.Under those conditions, 22 minutes is a lifetime.The US is a mass prison state for nothing other than profit, death and control. It allows weapons of war on its streets, churches, malls, any and everywhere, police kill people at traffic stops with impunity, and the US is complicit in Israel's massive genocide of Palestinians. The most basic rights of humanity have become foreign concepts.
Its Alabama.. .... I am surprised Texas didn't jump at the chance to try this...
Alabama has one foot in the dark ages. They are mentally Cro-Magnon
Alabama has one foot in the dark ages. They are mentally Cro-Magnon
Alabama has one foot in the dark ages. They are mentally Cro-Magnon
This was barbaric. The jury sentenced him to life. The judge replaced the verdict with the death sentence.
what did the guy do?
@@outoftheforest7652 He was hired to murder wife.
@@outoftheforest7652he killed a lady
This is a problem in Alabama, judges can overrule juries. It seems completely against Anglosaxon legal traditions, but it’s real in Alabama.
And then the state replaced that sentence with torture until dead.
"The most horrible thing I have ever seen" is completely anecdotal and subjective.
Torturing a murderer???? You are a special kind of media!
disgusting shame to America.
This is not the first time America has done this
@@white_genocide2050 I know
If you're not an American this is not your business
@@davidcaudill7779 I am allowed to have an opinion. I argue with christian values. America is a christian and modern (pretended) country and America has to be measured by it.
@@juliannaruffini first off the US Constitution guarantees separation of church and government secondly you don't pay and you're so called religious freedom I don't you don't pay taxes in the US you don't vote over here you're not a US citizen or a resident so no you don't all right to have an opinion about what we do and take your Christianity crap and stick it where the sun go because every last Christian out there that the first thing that they say I'm a Christian and the only thing I hear is nonsense look up the amount of millions of dollars Church to spend on themselves actually billions and it's completely a waste
Have they ever heard of anesthesia?!?
why they dont use 15 Grams of Natrium-Pentobarbital like assist suizide in switzerland?
Its pain free and cheap. and also proven to be perfectly effective.
How much suffering did the killer inflict upon his victims !
Irrelevant
Forget the method of execution, the murder that brought it about was the most horrific thing seen by the victim.
How are we collectively becoming MORE AND NOT LESS BARBARIC?????
This is utterly appalling.
What he did to that woman was appalling.
Seriously, how he beat her with items from her own home and then stabbed her repeatedly was far more appalling than how he died. Maybe if people saw her crime scene photos they might think a little differently.