Alabama nitrogen gas execution and E. Jean Carroll trial resumes: Morning Rundown
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This was torture, plain and simple, and no state in any country should've been permitted to carry out an execution in this manner. In conflict with what Alabama predicted, Smith didn't lose consciousness in seconds and instead convulsed in an unprecedented manner on the gurney. He didn't die for nearly 22 minutes. Alabama has set the US back.
Like his accomplice before him, Smith has finally been made to pay for his crime — a heinous act that the victim's family has had to live with for decades. Nothing out of the ordinary happened during this execution, and the involuntary movement was expected. This first case of execution by nitrogen gas was a success.