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.

    • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Three dumbest questions I’ve seen today -

      The ads weren’t super intrusive?

      It was easy to read?

      I don’t get how you got to the point where you had to actually ask that question?

      None of these are questions 😂