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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.\u00a0 Not now… he gets to be a trailblazer.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
His attorneys have argued against the method and asked the court to reject the execution request, describing it as “experimental.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 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.)<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n