Alabama killed Kenny

Alabama death row inmate, Kenneth Eugene Smith, forever 58, was executed tonight with nitrogen gas, and now holds the record for being the first to be put to death by this method. 

According to people who have never lost a love one to murder--I have--this method is controversial as it causes oxygen deprivation that these folks consider inhumane, kind of like how he stabbed a woman to death back in 1988.  He was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. or 20:25, local time at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.

Prior to Smith's death sentence being carried out, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the second time in as many days that the state could proceed with using nitrogen hypoxia to execute Smith, refusing to block the nation’s first execution by a new method since 1982.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Jackson dissented as their way of virtue signaling since they have no problem with killing the unborn.

For his last meal, Smith was served steak, hash browns and eggs, the Alabama Department of Corrections said. He was visited by his adoring wife, his young son, two close friends and his loser attorney.

The execution garnered national attention because of its method, which causes the person inhaling the nitrogen gas through a mask to die from a lack of oxygen.

Smith's lawyers argued Alabama was trying to make him the "test subject" for an untried execution method after he survived the state's previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection. At least Smith finally did something useful in his miserable life as a hired killer.

The defense also argued a second execution attempt is unconstitutional after Smith was one of three Alabama death row inmates who survived a botched lethal injection in 2022. 

The 2022 attempt, which lasted over four hours, caused Smith "severe physical pain and psychological torment, including post traumatic stress disorder," his lawyers said, much like the stabbing pain one feels while being killed by a knife.

"The application for stay of execution of sentenced of death presented to Justice (Clarence) Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied," the court said.

In a statement before he was put to death, Smith and his minister, Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood, said: "The eyes of the world are on this impending moral apocalypse. Our prayer is that people will not turn their heads. We simply cannot normalize the suffocation of each other."

And then there's abortion.

Smith was put to death for his role in a 1988 murder-for-hire plot that killed Elizabeth Sennett. He and John Forrest Parker killed the preacher's wife for $1,000 apiece.

So rest in hell, Mister Smith.

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