Witnesses watched through a window at an Alabama prison as Kenneth Eugene Smith became the nation's first person to be put to death using nitrogen gas.

ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — As witnesses including five news reporters watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to die in the 1988 murder-for hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett, convulsed on a gurney as Alabama carried out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas.

    • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one
      72·
      10 months ago

      Sure, but as far as methods this is considered the ideal to the point of being how most people advocate for legal assisted suicide.

      If youre going to legally kill someone, this is the way to do so humanely.

    • JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca
      53·
      10 months ago

      I don’t know. The older I get the more I feel that locking someone a confined space with a bunch of other unintegratables, essentially indefinitely, is less humane. I keep thinking society needs to have some skin in the game making these decisions. Seems like there’s more of that with something decisive like capital punishment than locking someone in an out of the way cage and forgetting about them.

      Maybe this was more of an !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world post tho.