Execution, Alabama-style
You may remember Eugene Smith? He was an Alabama inmate who was supposed to be executed back in 2022, but the state’s guys couldn’t get a good flow going with the two required IV needles. The execution warrant expired at midnight, so he got a temporary stay. Not now… he gets to be a trailblazer.
In a letter to Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm, Ivey said she is setting a thirty-hour time frame for the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith beginning at midnight on Jan. 25, 2024.
Under the proposed method, the inmate would be deprived of oxygen and forced to breathe only nitrogen. While proponents of the new method have theorized that it would be painless, opponents have likened it to human experimentation.
His attorneys have argued against the method and asked the court to reject the execution request, describing it as “experimental.”
Experimental? People have died of oxygen deprivation, which this is, throughout history. In this case, it’s the method he selected – and fought for, all the way to the Supreme Court.
Smith was convicted of a murder-by-hire in which he and another guy (since executed) were hired by a pastor name of Sennett to kill his wife. Sennett was both having an affair and in deep debt, and saw collecting her insurance as a two-fer. (He killed himself a week after her death. he got a no-go.)
Smith and his friend John Parker, who was executed in 2010, were both paid $1,000 to carry out the plan. The two men ambushed her and punched, beat, bludgeoned and stabbed her to death with a six-inch knife. Marshall said she was stabbed eight times in the chest and twice in the neck.
Can’t understand all the protocols like needing two IV lines, or any objections due to not finding the execution politically correct cruel and unusual punishment. Being stabbed 8 times is cruel, whether your last drugs go in through one IV or two is immaterial. Heck, every veterinarian I have ever met can put down the largest dog with one needle shot. Pretty sure most here would volunteer to put this kind of mad dog down.
I do believe that I would bet that post-execution, there will be no recidivism from Smith.
Category: Crime, Death penalty
He must have pissed off Me-Maw.
Two needles are used, because one is a backup. They even sterilize everything because they start flowing the drugs at midnight and the prisoner might get a reprieve after the insertion.
On a good note, Smith will soon be reunited with his sh*#@ird friend, John Parker. Let’s hear it for experimental methods of execution!!!
$1,000 bucks each? Cheap hit men, you get what you pay for, I guess. Roast in hell, fucker.
Did the Husband/Pastor withhold the appropriate amount for their taxes or did he 1099 them?
“the state’s guys couldn’t get a good flow going with the two required IV needles”
They’re doing it all wrong.
Cardiac needles.
3 pound engineer hammer
Texas oilman
“It’s a gusher!”
We had a pastor like that… in my area.
1st wife died, falling down the steps.
He moved to the Poconos.
2nd wife died, this way.
So much more to this.
But he’s now put away for life.
1st wife’s headstone is now a solo stone,
no more double stone with 2 hearts, 1 over the other.
I saw that one. He almost got away with it.
rgr769,
He DID get away with murdering wife #1, for years,
until he did it again 120 miles away with wife #2,
and only after a suicide inside the church
by the husband of his then current mistress
did an investigation begin.
The mistress moved into his home,
and she stood by him throughout the trial for murdering wife #2,
even though she could have eventually ended up as #3.
So did both of his adult daughters with wife #1,
who still live in my area.
They refused to believe that their father could have killed their mother.
After he was convicted for murder #2,
he later pled no contest to murdering wife #1 from years before.
Only then, did his mistress/fiancee and 2 daughters jump ship.
They all look like fools now, with internet infamy,
for long and adamantly believing all his holy bullshit,
and standing by their man.
Sad.
The air we breath is about 78% nitrogen already. Compared to other methods of depriving one of oxygen this is pretty mild.
Just one of my Chessies farts administered thru a ventilator
would be one method.
I was thinking more Luca Brasi sleeps wit da fishes, but whatever.
Exactly how waste of oxygen should be treated.
Yes. Deprive the oxygen.
While this is a prescription for a cure of pedophilia, I fail to see where it wouldn’t be just as effective for a P O S like that dude. One injection at the base of the skull and he is cured.
Works for Utah, I understand.
Gary Gilmore would agree, except, well, you know. 🤣
IIRC, that was the last firing squad Utah execution.
In Utah they aim for the heart with high powered rifles.
Maybe a quick dunking in liquid nitrogen would be “humane”.
I like the way you think!🤣🤛
That’s rather cold of you.
And so it begins…
That’s a rather brittle pun. I’m shattered.
Liquid oxygen is cold as well. Dunk, drop on pavement, rinse pavement before he thaws out.
Put it on pay per view. Better yet, he can replace the new year’s eve ball drop.
I like that idea👍🏻
And then, the wood chipper.
After the cryo dip, one good hammer hit should suffice.
“Hasta la Vista, baby.”
Shitcicle.
Aren’t there countries where “physician” assisted suicide is legal? Well, what do those “physicians” use.
Money.
Is Kervorkian still available?
No. Ironically enough, he’s dead.
There will be plenty of physicians available. The dems in Michigan are so enamored of killing off everyone, they’ve re-introduced bills to legalize assisted “suicide”.
How nice of them, when you find out that you can’t prevent the wind farm, solar farm or battery plant being built right next door to you(dems taking over where things can be built now), you can off yourself, with help from the state.
They should just shoot him up with seized fentanyl.IM injection would work just fine. Two birds one stone
Doesn’t Canada offer euthanasia?
Switzerland, for one. Also, Canada.
A piece of stout rope is a proven method. A short piece of rope with his feet untied. He can dance his way to hell.
Tappa tappa tappa!
🤣
One needle with a giant air bubble should be sufficient.
Eat a dick and choke, asshole.
Ooh, vaper lock him with a reuseable needle sharpened on the sidewalk as needed.
Experimental?
They going to give him a COVID shot?
He should be suffocated with methane after Taco Tuesday
Dutch oven style.
I knew a guy once…
A friend of my wife’s back in their teen years seemed like a promising young man. I went to his wife’s birthday party when we were all around 19 years old and remember the smiles on their faces as he placed a necklace around her neck and their kid looked on. We last saw him in a Kmart, when he walked in and asked my then-girlfriend if he could borrow some cash. She didn’t lend him the money. A week or two later he and a friend went to a 50-something-year-old paraplegic’s house who was known for his cocaine-fueled parties with younger people. He thought there was cash around the house, the paraplegic guy went for a gun in his dresser when he was woken up by two intruders, and my wife’s friend stabbed him over 50 times, netting $40. We were both in the court on the day he received his requested sentence after pleading Guilty. It’s something to hear a judge pass down a death sentence for someone you kind of knew, when you are both young fathers.
Long story short, after getting sober in prison, the system took too long for him and he couldn’t deal with what he’d done, so he carried out his own sentence, being the first self-deletion on Death Row in Virginia in quite some time.
Murderers and others who carry out heinous crimes should receive expedited executions. I spent many hours debating the death penalty during my various Criminal Justice core classes in college. The fact that “Death” can often equate to Life in prison (especially for military prisoners) is asinine and counterproductive to what’s left of our justice system.
What’s truly sad is that the greed/jealousy/opportunistic/etc. nature of most Death Row inmates ends up affecting many more people than just the victim. While most of us rightfully don’t sympathize with the perpetrator, they still have families and friends that wonder, “what if?”
I’m not anti-death penalty, but there are occasions that I’d rather let a convict rot in prison than take the needle. Cruel? Possibly. My conscience is clear.
I agree, especially given the mandatory appeals process and years of isolated (read: all but untouchable) housing. Certain crimes, particularly those involving children, should see the convict placed in general population with multiple copies of their paperwork conveniently dropped while transferring them to their new home.
Somewhere in the Arizona prison system, there is a former E7 doing about 214 years (IIRC) for child molestation, evidence tampering and destruction, and a pile of other charges. Arizona charged him with everything remotely pertinent, guilty on all charges. Huggins can rot in jail and then hell.
Too bad sheriff Joe arpiho(sp?) Isn’t allowed to be sheriff anymore.
Seems the pastors wife was deprived of oxygen as well, and not everyone complained about that. But just try to deprive a convicted felon of the same, and oh boy, the defenders crawl out of the woodwork.
The same moonbats who screech to spare the lives of convicted murderers also screech for the wanton murder of unborn children, further demonstrating that liberalism is a mental disorder.
Seems to me either hanging or firing squad. What’s the problem here?
Use Carbon Monoxide, it was the choice of Kevorkian, and it worked.
Give him a few hundred Mg of K+, potassium, to you heathens with no knowledge of chemistry.
That will kill him in less than a minute.
Inject it through a distal vein, it hurts like hell in your veins.
So he’ll be reminded of the murder he performed for a lousy grand…
Isn’t the guillotine relatively quick and painless?
Only modification,
I would put the condemned on their back, facing up,
and let them see it coming.
Have the blade fetch up a few times requiring re-winds.
Nice.
Odie and 26Limabeans,
Curly and the guillotine scene at 16:00.
lolol
The guillotine was the alternative I also thought of, first. Great minds…..
I’m not currently a proponent of the death sentence solely because our judicial system routinely sentences people to death on completely circumstantial evidence including highly questionable “jailhouse snitch” testimony, lab tests portrayed as virtually foolproof when they are more akin to astrology than science and the quasi legal (or flat out illegal) hijinks of prosecutors and cops more concerned with getting the “W” than with getting justice.
Sidebar: does the above set any type of record for run-on sentence length? I should at least get an honorable mention.
At any rate, with the caveat out of the way, in instances where we’ve decided the crime was heinous enough to warrant execution, I fail to understand our insistence that the mechanics of such execution be made as pleasant as possible.
I get that we don’t want to be unusually cruel so drawing and quartering is right out, but I fail to see how the time-honored tradition of hanging by the neck until dead could be considered cruel or unusual; I mean, I’m sure it’s not pleasant, but I’d wager the demise of the victim(s) the criminal was convicted of harming wasn’t exactly pleasant either.
Failing that, what’s wrong with your basic “bullet to the back of the neck” method? That’s very quick and seems to me would be pretty painless.
Or, better yet, save the cost of the round and use one of those air driven spikes they use to kill cattle for butchering. Again, quick and I’d imagine relatively painless…and very inexpensive to implement.
I’d also advocate for all executions to be public and televised. My contention is that the reason the death penalty isn’t a deterrence is the “out of sight, out of mind” factor.
Let some budding young criminal personally witness one of their fellow “members of a neighborhood street group” dangling at the end of a rope, or having a spike driven into their brain pan at a high rate of speed and I’d imagine that could be quite a deterrent.
Sailorcurt, honorable mention for the run-on AND for being someone against the death penalty yet having many interesting suggestions for killin’.
I’m against the death penalty ONLY because I don’t think it serves as a deterrent. Seems like a waste of money for all the appeals and housing of the inmate.
To be fair, that waste of money I cite doesn’t even constitute a rounding error in this spend-happy country.
Chalk this up as a comment I should have deleted before I hit Post Comment.
The death sentence is a waste of money.
I disagree about its deterrence value, the guy, (or gal in extremely rare cases) is forever deterred, once the coroner/ME pronounces them dead.
Exactly…that muh-fugger will never commit another crime.
I would think a stop at any Planned Parenthood office would suffice. Don’t they insist the baby doesn’t feel anything, while it’s arms and legs are torn off? Well, there ya go! Quick and painless post-birth abortion!
I know I’ve said it often, but I haven’t said it recently or nearly enough
“ Scaphism ”
I didn’t know there was a word for it. And environmentally friendly to boot.
I rag on the Commies but they had one of the more perfect execution systems. The condemned would be sentenced with ” date pending” Within a fairly short time period while being escorted around the for routine matters ( To eat, draw clothing, go to medical or fill out legal paperwork he would go into a round and when he looked up it would be empty. The last thing he heard would be ” Don’t turn around Comrade” before a pistol was fired point blank behind his right ear.
No fear or apprehension. Just walking along a hallway thinking he’s going to get a new set of sheets 15 seconds before he dies.
All they really need to do is over dose them with fentanyl.
Painless, and easy. It also keeps the organs ok to donate.