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  • čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
  • After trying - and failing - to kill him via lethal injection, Alabama is planning to execute death row inmate Kenneth Smith next week using an untested method - nitrogen suffocation. But why are they resorting to this? And could he get a last minute reprieve?
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Komentáře • 371

  • @StuMas
    @StuMas Před 5 měsíci +87

    Did the victim have the chance to appeal the method of her death?

  • @vsduvall
    @vsduvall Před 5 měsíci +23

    The victim gets no appeal. I have zero sympathy for this monster.

  • @AuntBee59
    @AuntBee59 Před 5 měsíci +108

    Why are you talking as if this man is a victim?
    What he did was cruel and unusual punishment.🤷🏻

    • @jipangoo
      @jipangoo Před 5 měsíci +8

      Because it says more about the punishers than the person being punished. Nobody cares about him.

    • @Nakiesrussphynxcattery
      @Nakiesrussphynxcattery Před 5 měsíci +10

      So 2 wrongs make a right?

    • @gbnomore3918
      @gbnomore3918 Před 5 měsíci +20

      @@Nakiesrussphynxcattery yes, negative one times negative one equals positive one.

    • @daveburrows9876
      @daveburrows9876 Před 5 měsíci +4

      You aren't very like the real Aunt Bea. Her empathy wasn't selective.

    • @daveburrows9876
      @daveburrows9876 Před 5 měsíci

      @@gbnomore3918 You should sue your school district for malpractice.
      -1 + -1 = -2
      OR
      -1 x 2 = -2
      Take your pick, it's the same answer.

  • @rickm6076
    @rickm6076 Před 5 měsíci +114

    Nitrogen induced hypoxia has actually killed a lot of people. It’s especially dangerous for aviators, as it’s painless, which is why it’s so dangerous. You don’t even know you’re not getting enough oxygen with this inert gas. What they were talking about with shelter animals and such is mistaken for CO2, which is an irritant gas, and that would be painful.

    • @Nakiesrussphynxcattery
      @Nakiesrussphynxcattery Před 5 měsíci +6

      Co2 is not painful. They goto sleep. It is the only humane way to euthanize certain animals like Rats, mice, small birds and other small animals

    • @lonnarheaj
      @lonnarheaj Před 5 měsíci +13

      ​@@Nakiesrussphynxcattery CO makes a person feel lethargic and drowsy, often with a horrific headache, before succumbing to anoxia. CO2 is not the same experience!

    • @nicholasgreco3928
      @nicholasgreco3928 Před 5 měsíci +5

      @@lonnarheajexactly.

    • @lisasisserman7452
      @lisasisserman7452 Před 5 měsíci +13

      We really don’t know if it’s painless, unless we do it ourselves

    • @christopherleubner6633
      @christopherleubner6633 Před 5 měsíci +7

      Actually seen a close call, happened when somebody went to replace a beam line component (EO switch) in a mirror array room for a giant laser. The chamber was supposed to be purged with clean air and the tech was supposed to be wearing a scuba system. Well he wore a regular mask and forgot to purge it and dropped within about a minute. The security operator noticed and we fished him out. He said he felt woozy and everything went white, then woke up to EMTs. Now they use the buddy system and a belt clipped O2 alarm when working anywhere near these areas.😮

  • @__Tazzzo
    @__Tazzzo Před 5 měsíci +65

    He stabbed and then used every implement in a fireplace set to beat his victim to death. At one point he noted that "she just wouldn't die" or something similar. Her defensive wounds were extreme, showing she fought as long, and as hard as she could to survive, but he kept beating her.

    • @sammar77
      @sammar77 Před 5 měsíci +4

      Thank you for the info

    • @ch6810
      @ch6810 Před 5 měsíci +5

      AND I HEARD THAT HE WAS THERE, BUT THE OTHER MAN DID THE KILLING!!! THIS HORROR SHOW IS NOT ABOUT HIS GUILT OR INNOCENCE NOW, IT'S ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY BEING ADMINISTERED, IF EVEN AT ALL!!! THIS BEING A 2ND TIME AFTER 35 YEARS IS TORTURE!!! UNACCEPTABLE IN AMERICA!!!

    • @becky2235
      @becky2235 Před 5 měsíci +9

      ​@@sammar77should have stopped the poor woman from being hurt then

    • @iD3AD3YE
      @iD3AD3YE Před 5 měsíci +4

      Kenneth was the one who murdered the woman. His partner "Harper" was the one that just stood and watched. He was executed in 2010.

    • @__Tazzzo
      @__Tazzzo Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@ch6810you heard wrong. Thats all.

  • @pacnwguy9056
    @pacnwguy9056 Před 5 měsíci +83

    Sympathy for his family and the family of his victim. Zero for him.

  • @TomTomdog
    @TomTomdog Před 5 měsíci +5

    The victims that he killed had 10 times the pain and suffer during their death. Why should he get the easy death? Not fair

  • @mimi45945
    @mimi45945 Před 5 měsíci +9

    Does anyone know why they dont use guns for execution- certainly murderers do, some cases they refer to shootings as execution style.
    All these devices cost more money and have back stories of failures. Can anyone explain this please?

    • @kenmizell7533
      @kenmizell7533 Před 2 měsíci

      That is a good question. I don't understand why. See my post above.

  • @ChrisI-jz5dz
    @ChrisI-jz5dz Před 5 měsíci +4

    Please could someone tell me why is it that once people get incarcerated, all of a sudden they seem to find religion? Where was religion when they had freedom and were cout committing crimes?.

  • @LaurenceBoyce
    @LaurenceBoyce Před 5 měsíci +76

    I think it is misleading to call this method "suffocation" - which implies considerable suffering. With inert gases, you don't feel a thing.

    • @user-mh7ng4vn9l
      @user-mh7ng4vn9l Před 5 měsíci +7

      Is that what they tell you? Are you sure?

    • @LaurenceBoyce
      @LaurenceBoyce Před 5 měsíci +19

      If by "they" you mean science books and stuff like that, then yes, that is what they tell me.

    • @MorningNapalm
      @MorningNapalm Před 5 měsíci +6

      How many times have you tried this?

    • @LaurenceBoyce
      @LaurenceBoyce Před 5 měsíci +13

      It has happened many times by accident. You pass out within seconds.

    • @HNH421
      @HNH421 Před 5 měsíci

      @@MorningNapalm Nitrogen induced hypoxia has actually killed a lot of people. It’s especially dangerous for aviators

  • @Triestini
    @Triestini Před 5 měsíci +48

    I will start by saying I’m not in favour of the death penalty however, Has anyone actually asked the inmate how else he would prefer to go. ? The same way his victim went perhaps. ?

    • @d-con6825
      @d-con6825 Před 5 měsíci +2

      He literally advocated for this...
      Read about it.

    • @m-o-l
      @m-o-l Před 5 měsíci +1

      Most States give the inmate two options .
      They are allowed to choose .. and if they don't .. then the State will pick for them .

    • @mrich9654
      @mrich9654 Před 4 měsíci

      He chose this method. And those buffoons are on here defending him. Ridiculous!

  • @meldbates
    @meldbates Před 5 měsíci +65

    Why should we be concerned about cruel and unusual punishment when he did not care about it with his victim? Imagine how scared his victim was and they want people to be concerned about his fear?

    • @kelleygreengrass
      @kelleygreengrass Před 5 měsíci +10

      Because of the 8th Amendment of the Constitution duh

    • @bianchaesson1441
      @bianchaesson1441 Před 5 měsíci +17

      Punishment is not about revenge, its about justice.

    • @christopherleubner6633
      @christopherleubner6633 Před 5 měsíci +8

      It is about as humane as capital punishment could possibly get. Effects are similar to nitrous oxide plus alcohol.

    • @johnsteel5347
      @johnsteel5347 Před 5 měsíci +4

      ​@@bianchaesson1441 That must be why so many christians are mad about them using a painless method of execution.

    • @Mermaid404
      @Mermaid404 Před 5 měsíci +10

      He got a longer time to live then his Victim!

  • @erniefasbender4939
    @erniefasbender4939 Před 5 měsíci +37

    Unfortunate but he had it coming for his crime. What about the relatives of his victim?

    • @jonescrusher1
      @jonescrusher1 Před 5 měsíci +2

      What about his relatives?

    • @Yankeepride03
      @Yankeepride03 Před 5 měsíci +8

      @@jonescrusher1He brought it on himself

    • @user-mh7ng4vn9l
      @user-mh7ng4vn9l Před 5 měsíci +4

      @@Yankeepride03Until the day they execute an innocent. Like it have never happened before, right?!? But yeah…”mistakes happen”, until it happens to you…

    • @ZootyZoFo
      @ZootyZoFo Před 5 měsíci

      @@user-mh7ng4vn9lHas never happened once in America. Only the British execute the innocent because of their inferior criminal justice system.

    • @willsta21
      @willsta21 Před 5 měsíci +6

      Well if you’re the unfortunate ‘one’ this is the way you want to go! Want to stress I DO NOT SUPPORT the Death Penalty. This is the most Humane method I’ve heard off in human history for capitol punishment.

  • @user-kd9ui9cv1z
    @user-kd9ui9cv1z Před 5 měsíci +16

    Times Radio are such liars. It’s happened hundreds of times in industrial accidents. 30 seconds of 100 % nitrogen and you pass out.
    It’s so fast you can’t get out of the room in time. You’re just gone and you felt nothing different than breathing air.

    • @thepalettewhispererasmr1227
      @thepalettewhispererasmr1227 Před 5 měsíci

      Happens to divers often.

    • @ambrr_lily
      @ambrr_lily Před 5 měsíci +3

      I guess everyone in attendance is lying too, then? Several minutes of spewing and heaving is how it was described. Even the warden claimed it went essentially as expected with agonal breathing and other side-effects. He was proud! But "30 seconds", "he didn't even know what happened" was not at all how it went.

    • @al-uw4ln
      @al-uw4ln Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@ambrr_lily Agonal breathing happens when your brain cortex is already dead, you can't feel anything.

    • @Jayrock25000
      @Jayrock25000 Před 5 měsíci

      Sounds like bs to me, excuses on how witnesses seen it, ain't no one knows for sure everyone speculating on this subject

    • @Jayrock25000
      @Jayrock25000 Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@al-uw4lnare you doctor or something?

  • @cindysmith6509
    @cindysmith6509 Před 5 měsíci +6

    So when an animal is euthanized it is painful?

  • @stanjr7105
    @stanjr7105 Před 5 měsíci +12

    "People are not used for experiments".. Em yh they are

    • @gemmag.2988
      @gemmag.2988 Před 5 měsíci +1

      The pandemic was an experiment in control techniques.

    • @osier769
      @osier769 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Indeed we are, and many have been and will continue to be.

  • @karlditz8631
    @karlditz8631 Před 5 měsíci +3

    I dont care what anyone says The U.S. is a wild teenager among nations. It acts like it too.

  • @Usercantwelve
    @Usercantwelve Před 5 měsíci +8

    Is this how the passengers of MA370 died?
    They just fell asleep. In minutes theyre gone

    • @Numb217
      @Numb217 Před 5 měsíci +2

      I have always wondered about this. The only time I saw a flight attendant actually look terrified is when we lost cabin pressure so had to fly at a lower altitude and be diverted. Maybe they were just new at their job though.

    • @JeffSkilling69
      @JeffSkilling69 Před 5 měsíci +2

      The passengers of that Helios flight died in a similar fashion

    • @Usercantwelve
      @Usercantwelve Před 5 měsíci +1

      @@JeffSkilling69 Yes , the Ghost plane .

  • @mittiejackson3427
    @mittiejackson3427 Před 5 měsíci +18

    Firing squad works.

  • @childofthe60s100
    @childofthe60s100 Před 5 měsíci +28

    WHAT ABOUT THE VILE ACT HE COMMITTED AND THE BEATEN DEAD WOMAN??
    Should ANYONE care about this criminal?

    • @ch6810
      @ch6810 Před 5 měsíci +1

      HE IS NOT THE ONE THAT DID THE KILLING!!!

    • @davidcaudill7779
      @davidcaudill7779 Před 5 měsíci +2

      ​@@ch6810buddy without you doing a bunch of research you're not going to know the details of that case whatsoever know whether he's innocent or guilty

    • @ch6810
      @ch6810 Před 5 měsíci +3

      IT'S NOT EVEN ABOUT CARING OR NOT FOR THE CRIMINAL; IT HAS BECOME MORE ABOUT IF WHAT THE COURT IS DOING IS RIGHT OR WRONG, AND IN THE CASE OF THIS CRIMINAL, THEY ARE BARBARIC AND AS CRUEL AS HAMAS!!! THE COURT HAS RULED IN FAVOR OF TORTURE: CRUEL AND UNUSUAL!!!

    • @deathfire365
      @deathfire365 Před 5 měsíci

      Do you feel the same way about the Palestinians who are being murdered by Israel? If not, you have a funny way of organizing your moral code and are a hypocrite

  • @ryanparadise9677
    @ryanparadise9677 Před 5 měsíci +55

    He chose this method of execution. Why? At the time he chose it they didn't have a way to do it. Now they've figured out how to do it and it's all of a sudden a problem. This dude is the prime example of someone manipulating the system. I hope the courts let this go through. Damn this dudes feelings. He destroyed a family he forfeited his right to have a choice and has been a burden on taxpayers for over 30 years.

    • @al-uw4ln
      @al-uw4ln Před 5 měsíci +3

      He chose the unavailable method of execution? Does this mean if I got a death sentence I could choose to be landed on Mars without a spacesuit and didn't have to worry until flights to Mars become available?

    • @DCLab_
      @DCLab_ Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@al-uw4lnare you being sympathetic for a murderer? Weird flex

    • @al-uw4ln
      @al-uw4ln Před 5 měsíci

      @@DCLab_ No, I'm not being sympathetic. I'm surprised it's possible to delay execution by choosing an unavailable method.

  • @willsta21
    @willsta21 Před 5 měsíci +22

    Doesn’t oxygen starvation ‘make you giddy’ then ‘pass out’? Sounds rather humane…. I may be missing a massive point of science here, please enlighten? Entonox is Nitrogen based and we give that to pregnant women?

    • @kwatt-engineer796
      @kwatt-engineer796 Před 5 měsíci +15

      It does that. Iv'e flown my plane at altitudes where hypoxia began to set in. I can say with certainty It makes one feel quite jovial. While I doubt that he would go out laughing, the descriptions I have heard of passengers and crew who perished due to failure of the pressurization system probably never realized it was happening . However as one who survived a pulmonary embolism I can say that a sudden interruption of oxygen supply is quite distressing . If you interpolate between those two data points you could conclude that a gradual reduction of oxygen wouldn't induce any additional distress

    • @howardosborne8647
      @howardosborne8647 Před 5 měsíci +10

      You are partially correct with what you say but Entonox is Nitrous Oxide so has sufficient Oxygen not to cause total suffocation which pure Nitrogen most certainly will.
      All the stuff I've ever seen written about Nitrogen suffocation says it does not cause the body to register any distressed reactions like gases such as Carbon Dioxide would.

    • @neville4451
      @neville4451 Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@kwatt-engineer796and there's nitrogen narcosis experienced by scuba divers in depths from 30 meters. I've experience that. Makes you feel dopey and impairs cognitive and dexterity function. The deep depths compresses the nitrogen bubbles in the body that causes the narcosis. The nitrogen is in the air the diver breathes from the air cylinder. Air consists of around 21% oxygen and 79% nitrogen from memory. I think it's called Boyle's law, that is, the effect of gas under pressure on the human body.
      This is basic theory you learn in scuba diving coarse.
      Curious...was your pulmonary embolism a diving injury?🤔
      🇦🇺🙋‍♂️🇦🇺

    • @janedoe6181
      @janedoe6181 Před 5 měsíci +3

      ⁠@@howardosborne8647
      I have come across the same findings. I don’t know where nitrogen suffocation causing distress is coming from. It might in people with COPD, but that’s a small minority of the US population.

    • @flapjack413
      @flapjack413 Před 5 měsíci +7

      @@anjou6497 Wow. Do you think that the people who are murdered feel less distress as they're being shot or stabbed or beaten to death, than someone having a mask put over their face? Give me a break! Also, it's much different from being choked to death. The body does crazy things when the airway is restricted, and it's battling to draw a breath. This method allows someone to keep breathing until their brain shuts down and stops telling the lungs to breathe. First you lose consciousness, then the brain shuts down from lack of oxygen, and the lungs and heart follow immediately after. It really is quite humane if carried out properly, not that these people deserve to be treated any more humanely than their victims, but yeah.

  • @jennyfurr
    @jennyfurr Před 5 měsíci +2

    (Whining) “It’s so cruel, they don’t even use it on animals in shelters…”
    They f*cking better not! Those animals don’t deserve ANY pain. When are we gonna realize animals are far superior to humans?

  • @Mytry4realz
    @Mytry4realz Před 5 měsíci +3

    After what he did. Why would I care how his life was taken?? He took a life and now his has been taken 🤷🏾‍♀️

  • @christiannwagwu4286
    @christiannwagwu4286 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Tell the truth, he choosed it himself. Can you talk about the woman's family he killed and the woman he killed.

  • @julians7268
    @julians7268 Před 5 měsíci +73

    Its barbarity until the victim is your wife, your daughter, your husband or son.

  • @michaelmaynard1067
    @michaelmaynard1067 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Seriously you are worried about him. Where were you against who he killed

  • @ikr2377
    @ikr2377 Před 5 měsíci +3

    As a student nurse ive actually seen this.long term drug ussers veins can be soo badly affected that they have no viable veins....

  • @daveb6214
    @daveb6214 Před 5 měsíci +11

    I will probably get Flak for this , my late uncle used to you take a life you lose yours . Think how his victim felt !!!

  • @66tarot
    @66tarot Před 5 měsíci +36

    They did not care that his victim suffered

  • @AirForceFalcons_9922
    @AirForceFalcons_9922 Před 5 měsíci +3

    It's better than the electric chair. Besides, inhaling nitrogen is painless. He better be glad Alabama didn't use Zyclon B.

  • @jodycarrithers6160
    @jodycarrithers6160 Před 5 měsíci +3

    It is so, painfully, obvious that you have never had a beloved family member or even close friend, brutally murdered! Your report is so filled with faulty speculation and misdirected ire that I almost couldn't listen to it. What about what he did? What about the real victim? Oh, that's right, apparently, they don't matter and neither does any of her still grieving, surviving family members. This report is shameful!

  • @victorfarvet2931
    @victorfarvet2931 Před 5 měsíci +56

    When we talk about capital punishment, and we worry about suffering, I often wonder about the victims that they killed, and their suffering which they did not cause but yet they died and suffering. It’s just a thought and that’s my opinion.

  • @stevenwynn7162
    @stevenwynn7162 Před 5 měsíci +9

    Divers call nitrogen narcosis the “Martini Effect” bc of the way it makes you feel. It makes you feel intoxicated and even euphoric but if you don’t start to ascend eventually your will pass out, go into convulsions then die… Doesn’t seem like all that bad of a way die if you ask me

  • @calilove6445
    @calilove6445 Před 5 měsíci +26

    I love how these silly brits are sooo concerned about this murderer suffocating, but don't care that the victim died from being beaten to death, scared out of her mind, and likely SUFFOCATED too, on her own blood... but they want to cry about some guy that originally ASKED FOR this method of execution, and is now getting it.... Dont focus on how the victim felt AT ALL. And no, it's not something "America is experimenting with." It's something the state of Alabama is experimenting with. Every state has a different call when it comes to execution. Unfortunately alot of states don't even have the death penalty. Stop twisting the narrative. ....... why don't you ask how the victims family and loved ones are doing?? Where's their interview about THE ACTUAL VICTIM???? What was her last day like? What was her last meal?? Worry about that! SMH🤡🙄😒

    • @Countryboy071
      @Countryboy071 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Silly Brits ?

    • @Countryboy071
      @Countryboy071 Před 5 měsíci +6

      How generalised and condescending is that comment?
      Us "silly brits" have a rich history dating back hundreds of years in comparison to modern countries. Myself and the majority of Britain would not make such insulting and, frankly childish comments about an ally such as the USA.
      Our historical backgrounds are very different. Do you respect native Americans, part of your history?
      I have relatives that can prove they originally came from England so setting in the States, not difficult to go far back is it?
      Why do some states have the death penalty whilst others do not?
      By percentage of the populus, why do we have less shootings?
      I would never insult a country that has, for the most part a democracy rather than a Dictator.
      Us "silly brits" are not as silly as you believe.
      Go back to school and learn the origin and success your country enjoys instead of insulting others, please.
      Thank you.

    • @katiedowding-lees9416
      @katiedowding-lees9416 Před 5 měsíci

      @countryboy071
      Completely agree with you. Bloody Americans think they rule the world and are always right. The UK (us silly Brits) banned the death penalty in the 1960's and are still very much in the majority that we don't want it back. Don't insult an entire nation because your country is barbaric

    • @calilove6445
      @calilove6445 Před 5 měsíci

      @@Countryboy071 Not all brits are silly, but they are, and so are you, whatever you are. Why?? Bcz out of everything I said, you made that comment personal and chose to take a moment to talk about yourself🙄. NO ONE CARES. Talk about the victim of THIS crime for a change. Not your hurt feelings over a comment about the brits in the clip, not you, and not the murderer. That's the point, narcissist. No one is focused on the victim or her loved ones. Get help. I'm not entertaining your lonely, butthurt feelings bcz you have main character syndrome.

    • @stevendurrant1724
      @stevendurrant1724 Před 5 měsíci

      I love how you can’t distinguish between a descriptive account, including of the horrific
      crime, and a comments section expressing little or no sympathy.
      It’s easier to condemn peoples
      opinions if we imagine them isn’t it?

  • @xinma6034
    @xinma6034 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Better than stay in that room for life lol

  • @audibjornsson6107
    @audibjornsson6107 Před 5 měsíci +25

    You are calling a convicted murderer and his deranged wife eloquent? Uhhhhh

    • @osric1730
      @osric1730 Před 5 měsíci +10

      Why wouldn't you? What has being a murderer got you do with the capacity to use language effectively?

  • @taghiabiri3489
    @taghiabiri3489 Před 5 měsíci +10

    Fentanyl?

    • @christopherleubner6633
      @christopherleubner6633 Před 5 měsíci +1

      Combine that with N2 and that would be the quickest painless exit imaginable.

    • @flapjack413
      @flapjack413 Před 5 měsíci

      No. Pharmaceutical companies can not sell it to people who aren't pharmacists or doctors, and doctors can't be involved because they've taken a hippocratic oath and would lose their licenses to practice medicine. Prison staff can't buy it anywhere but on the street, in which case they would become criminals themselves.

    • @Wargasm54
      @Wargasm54 Před 5 měsíci +1

      I said the same thing

  • @jamesciartelli1730
    @jamesciartelli1730 Před 5 měsíci +5

    Most of these commenters are bots

    • @Alltracavenger
      @Alltracavenger Před 5 měsíci

      The 'Deceased Internet' theory exists for a reason... :D

  • @jeffreymcgill4075
    @jeffreymcgill4075 Před 5 měsíci +2

    A bullet is way cheaper 🤷🏼‍♂️

  • @parkependleton6453
    @parkependleton6453 Před 5 měsíci +16

    Something that some people who live outside of the United States as well as some left-wingers in the United States don't realize is that each of the fifty states have a degree of sovereignty which entitles them to run their states as they see fit.

    • @stevendurrant1724
      @stevendurrant1724 Před 5 měsíci

      Nearly everyone knows that, including whatever you think ‘left wingers’ are.
      Of all the nationalities fit to preach about ignorance of what goes
      on elsewhere, let’s just say the US is at now risk of getting high on the list.

  • @Katherine-ww1gc
    @Katherine-ww1gc Před 5 měsíci

    It takes 3 minutes for a person to drown.
    What is this kind of torture about, except the human heart?

  • @missemiss7397
    @missemiss7397 Před 5 měsíci +3

    They make it sound so cruel and dramatic but I’m sure if we knew the circumstances of what their victims went through not to mention their families as well. I have mixed feelings about it all but when it comes down to it I think it’s important to look at the totality of the situation. Also I’m not sure I would describe it as cruel suffocation because it sounds like they are unconscious as it happens. My prayers go out to everyone affected by this situation.

  • @craigdaubbeats-rapinstrume9185
    @craigdaubbeats-rapinstrume9185 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Death by whip it overdose? Or is this not the same as nitrogen oxide?

  • @denisedavies5859
    @denisedavies5859 Před 5 měsíci +8

    Why, why, why do they produce videos with such dreadful audio? Honestly, such an important topic deserves quality audio.

    • @gordonaliasme1104
      @gordonaliasme1104 Před 5 měsíci +2

      I wear headphones. The audio is fine. Even here in the UK 😂

  • @paulstrawbridge5687
    @paulstrawbridge5687 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I love how this was commented on by british people who are well within thier right to condemn capital punishment and how its not painless enough...its inhumane. Catherine Hayes probably would agree...yeah, we've had a dark history together...no?

  • @Dirtysouthpottymouthmamabear
    @Dirtysouthpottymouthmamabear Před 5 měsíci +12

    An eye for an eye and the whole world will be blind. Considering he survived one botched execution why would they put him through another.

    • @osier769
      @osier769 Před 5 měsíci +6

      The sentence has to be completed.

    • @aarone9000
      @aarone9000 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Once upon a time it was if someone survived the attempt; it was considered an act of god (gods will) and the person was released. Of course no me ever survived one!

    • @Dirtysouthpottymouthmamabear
      @Dirtysouthpottymouthmamabear Před 5 měsíci +1

      Actually a few have survived

    • @thepalettewhispererasmr1227
      @thepalettewhispererasmr1227 Před 5 měsíci +2

      I bet his victims family understand...

  • @dioghaltasfoirneartach7258
    @dioghaltasfoirneartach7258 Před 5 měsíci +2

    Different. Didn't know that was in the toolbox

  • @thepalettewhispererasmr1227
    @thepalettewhispererasmr1227 Před 5 měsíci

    They ahouldve called a local ED or ICU. They wouldve gotten the IV for them.

  • @YaMumsSpecialFriend
    @YaMumsSpecialFriend Před 5 měsíci +4

    Why do I bother watching g or commenting of my posts are deleted the moment they’re posted?

    • @osric1730
      @osric1730 Před 5 měsíci +3

      Yeah I had to do a seance to find this one.

    • @garyk1334
      @garyk1334 Před 5 měsíci

      YT is ridiculously dysfunctional now deleting even the most innocuous of comments , it's time to take it into public ownership

    • @thisisme3238
      @thisisme3238 Před 5 měsíci

      You are not alone

    • @garyk1334
      @garyk1334 Před 5 měsíci

      They censor everything that's not on the message

    • @garyk1334
      @garyk1334 Před 5 měsíci

      The people running this platform are the thought police of orwell's nightmares writ large

  • @pita3908
    @pita3908 Před 5 měsíci

    It's AL.. what do you expect.. it's a state still living in the dark.

  • @mattduncil
    @mattduncil Před 5 měsíci +7

    If the court orders some one to pay a fine, and they fail to do so, they are penalized. If the state attempts to do an execution and fails then it’s fine they can just try again?

    • @UpcomingJedi
      @UpcomingJedi Před 5 měsíci +5

      Yup. The state is not an actual human in case youve not figgered it out yet.

  • @Mark_Ocain
    @Mark_Ocain Před 5 měsíci

    So many bloodthirsty people in here LOL

  • @BadHorsie1
    @BadHorsie1 Před 5 měsíci

    Asphyxiation and for humans it's akin to being in high atmosphere i.e exclusion of oxygen. Painless.

  • @deanbirkett2102
    @deanbirkett2102 Před 4 měsíci

    I dissagree with capital punishment.!But I am not American,Kenny was and as one, he commited his crime knowing the out come. End of really. Please reply with the Victims names. Give them some Loving!!!

  • @kathleentate8343
    @kathleentate8343 Před dnem

    What did his victim go through?

  • @heidimueller1039
    @heidimueller1039 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Many countries have legalized euthanasia, including Canada, using drugs administered by professionals. Can not these officials do the same?

    • @loishearn90
      @loishearn90 Před 5 měsíci

      He doesn’t drink before the execution, causing himself to be dehydrated and they could not insert the IV I read.

  • @kelcritcarroll
    @kelcritcarroll Před 5 měsíci

    Figures its a state like alabama…I wonder how many psychopathic personel this prison has in its EMPLOY. This execution is disturbing in so many was…the botched attempt….the huge amount of time spent on death row and then useing this man like a test subject…the family having to go thru this and the victims family going to watch this horror show….how is watching this execution really beneficial? It isnt.

  • @Joe-uv6nr
    @Joe-uv6nr Před měsícem

    The death penalty is wrong. God is the only one who has the right to take someone's life. Two wrongs don't make a right. My biggest problem with the death penalty is if new technology proves that someone was actually innocent years later you can't bring someone back from the dead but if someone's in prison and proved innocent later then at least they can be released from prison.

  • @nishalall3510
    @nishalall3510 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Disgusting

  • @janeceeastwood8035
    @janeceeastwood8035 Před 5 měsíci +3

    I understand that Smith has either asked for, or agreed to, this method of execution. Any type of execution is a horror to me, an American.

    • @iD3AD3YE
      @iD3AD3YE Před 5 měsíci

      He requested this type of execution 30 years ago as an alternative to lethal injection because at the time her requested it, they didn't have a way of doing it and it was illegal. So he new they would run into issues if that came to it. When his first execution failed and they started talking about Nitrogen Hypoxia as an actual option he appealed it multiple times. Y'all, the information is out there, read the facts don't just assume and make up stories.

    • @janeceeastwood8035
      @janeceeastwood8035 Před 5 měsíci

      @@iD3AD3YE Oh, you’re so very kind.

  • @user-wc8em2it6d
    @user-wc8em2it6d Před 5 měsíci +3

    The death sentence was set in 1988. 2024 and now the state of Alabama is going to carry it out? This is wrong on all levels.

  • @sharonwilliams6114
    @sharonwilliams6114 Před 5 měsíci

    Thank you

  • @DCLab_
    @DCLab_ Před 5 měsíci

    Lol hearing someone from the EU make assumptions on US states is hysterical lol. You have no idea what you're talking about.

  • @brandonoconnor1079
    @brandonoconnor1079 Před 5 měsíci +10

    So what if they suffer! Think about the poor victims and how horrific their deaths were!

  • @JasonDrennen
    @JasonDrennen Před 5 měsíci +3

    All death penalties should be broadcasting to the public. It's serious about that the public should have a say so in it but they can't do that unless they see it.

  • @eastafrica1020
    @eastafrica1020 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Isn't it also called laughing gas?

    • @t1n4444
      @t1n4444 Před 5 měsíci +3

      Why not Google the question prior to posting?
      People will believe you're a tad simple.

    • @eastafrica1020
      @eastafrica1020 Před 5 měsíci +2

      @@t1n4444 Maybe you are a tad simple to not understand the concept of a rhetorical question.

    • @geofo60
      @geofo60 Před 5 měsíci +6

      Laughing gas is Nitrous Oxide, commonly used by dentists. Also used in internal combustion engines for a short burst of power.

    • @treyquattro
      @treyquattro Před 5 měsíci +3

      @@eastafrica1020 you should probably also google "rhetoric"

    • @janedoe6181
      @janedoe6181 Před 5 měsíci +7

      Nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and nitrogen are very different.

  • @billlee5287
    @billlee5287 Před 5 měsíci

    This man asked to be deleted by this process

  • @mattduncil
    @mattduncil Před 5 měsíci +16

    I don’t get the point of execution. He’s in prison serving time, that honestly doesn’t seem to fix anything either, but. How dose killing somebody make justice? It’s revenge and can in a twisted way make people feel better, from the idea that another who wronged you suffered and lost their life. Is that justice?Is that the society we want to be?

    • @user-et5qs2en4c
      @user-et5qs2en4c Před 5 měsíci +9

      There are NO winners in this game and no closure, people think this will bring happiness to the victim’s family BUT IT WON’T, How Sad 😢🌺🕊

    • @UpcomingJedi
      @UpcomingJedi Před 5 měsíci +1

      Youre just not intelligent to realise that prison is a place criminals go to be safe from their victims so they dont take the law into their own hands and personally take revenge. As is done in other parts of the world which your sheltered eyes have never seen

    • @UpcomingJedi
      @UpcomingJedi Před 5 měsíci +7

      Right. So why even put them in jail by that logic? Just let them go free.

    • @user-wc8em2it6d
      @user-wc8em2it6d Před 5 měsíci +1

      1988 and now Alabama is going to carry out the sentence in 2024. Hypocrites!

    • @anitabelcher79
      @anitabelcher79 Před 5 měsíci

      But a lot of people are let out of prison and do the same thing ( like child molesters ) if they hadn't gotten out that couldn't have hurt another child or killed someone they don't learn they go right back to the same thing

  • @ptonpc
    @ptonpc Před 5 měsíci +6

    Nitrogen has been used for auto euthanasia. It's said to be a quite peaceful painless way to go.

    • @TRVBAL
      @TRVBAL Před 5 měsíci +1

      you mean suicide?

  • @maggievillard7334
    @maggievillard7334 Před měsícem

    Dans un monde civilisé où vit des humains ce genre de méthode inhumaine qu’est la suffocation ne devrait plus exister car cela prouve que malgré nos avancées dans tous les domaines l’humain reste malgré tout un barbare insensible à la souffrance humaine que ce soit envers un criminel ou pas.

  • @user-wi2nx6uu3t
    @user-wi2nx6uu3t Před 5 měsíci

    Mercy

  • @DarrenMalin
    @DarrenMalin Před měsícem

    All about the killer. The victim a after thought.

  • @diannegill5373
    @diannegill5373 Před 5 měsíci +2

    If they are worried about aspiration, here is an idea. Do not feed him his last meal! He has been ALIVE for 28 yrs.....He chose his form of execution...why not do an interview about the victim and her family? You bleeding, misguided, bleeding hearts make me sick!!! Poor baby!!!!

  • @mollymorath3583
    @mollymorath3583 Před 5 měsíci

    As of an hour ago he's been deadened...

  • @sadtosh
    @sadtosh Před 5 měsíci +8

    WHAT IS THERE TO TEST? DID HIS VICTIM HAD A CHOICE?

  • @williesanders184
    @williesanders184 Před 5 měsíci

    I hear not one word of how they brutaly killed the victim?Just another way of you people to get controversial clicks here! When i first heard about this i thought say what?But so be it!Evil begits Evil?

  • @MyVespa1
    @MyVespa1 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Make these arguments against abortion!

  • @Julesz844
    @Julesz844 Před 5 měsíci

    Wow ....

  • @theoryofpersonality1420
    @theoryofpersonality1420 Před 5 měsíci

    Read the comments. No one cares.

  • @gregjames9875
    @gregjames9875 Před 5 měsíci +4

    When someone is found guilty of a crime and is sentenced to death I would like to see the following happen:
    The prisoner is placed in a prefab, 10' by 10' cell. The cell is placed on a truck and transported to a site where there is existing plumbing and electric ready to be connected.
    The prisoner is allowed one book. They eat two meals a day, in their cells. They are allowed a radio, but no tv. They do not have access to a library, a gym, or any kind of education.
    They are allowed no visitors. They do not send or receive mail. To the outside world they cease to exist. The guards do not speak to them.
    The next prisoner is brought to the same site and his or her cell is attached to any existing cells.

    • @TRVBAL
      @TRVBAL Před 5 měsíci

      wow that's intense

  • @ZootyZoFo
    @ZootyZoFo Před 5 měsíci +8

    God bless America!

  • @user-nu3ih9cc1h
    @user-nu3ih9cc1h Před 5 měsíci +5

    What other group used gas?

  • @Leitros-kj4qb
    @Leitros-kj4qb Před 5 měsíci +2

    What needs to be understood is that those persons responsible for the execution have very limited medical training. I have had 5 operations and all the associated scans, blood tests etc. It has never tsken more than 3 attempts to find a vein. Same goes for others in my wards. If the nurse has a problem she will get an experienced phlebotomist or a doctor to do the necessary . But these executioner buffoons cant to that. Hence the occasional horror story

  • @frantzlabbe5538
    @frantzlabbe5538 Před 5 měsíci

    This is not going to happen!

  • @Dbdbe1
    @Dbdbe1 Před 5 měsíci +13

    Revolting. Absolutely barbaric

    • @ZootyZoFo
      @ZootyZoFo Před 5 měsíci +8

      Not really, there is no suffering and calling it “suffocation” is totally misleading. There are some people whose crimes are so grievous or they are such a danger to society they have lost the right to live amongst us.
      I do believe they should be allowed to choose their method. 80% of all executions in America take place in Texas where I live and we only have 2 scheduled for this year, the most executed in a year was in 2000 when 40 were executed. There are no last meals in Texas and it takes in average 18 years and 4 months to execute someone after being sentenced and I believe that’s wrong because by then you are not executing the same person. If the condemned deny all appeals it takes about 2 years but that doesn’t happen often. Solitary confinement on Death Row is inhumane, they used to be in general population where they worked and had access to education until 4 of them escaped in 1999 so now they are isolated and spend 23 hours a day in a cell by themselves. That’s inhuman, not execution, and some go completely insane after a few years on death row.

    • @allaboutperspective650
      @allaboutperspective650 Před 5 měsíci

      How do you know there is no suffering? Vets do not recommend it for pets? @@ZootyZoFo

    • @mobilephil244
      @mobilephil244 Před 5 měsíci +11

      As were his crimes.

  • @la7dfa
    @la7dfa Před 5 měsíci +21

    Most democratic countries has stopped using death sentence. We are not ISIS or some branch of them.

    • @TheAcadianGuy
      @TheAcadianGuy Před 5 měsíci +1

      The US is a wannabe democracy

    • @gbnomore3918
      @gbnomore3918 Před 5 měsíci +9

      Nor should we be without Justice

    • @la7dfa
      @la7dfa Před 5 měsíci

      @@gbnomore3918 Absolutely. Humans needs a carrot and a stick to be motivated to do right.

    • @gbnomore3918
      @gbnomore3918 Před 5 měsíci +4

      @@la7dfa everyone has a choice on their own moral character.

    • @tngirl341
      @tngirl341 Před 5 měsíci

      🙄🙄

  • @roughhewnuk
    @roughhewnuk Před 5 měsíci +19

    Barbaric behaviour

    • @pushpinderchhatwal7602
      @pushpinderchhatwal7602 Před 5 měsíci

      Death by mankind is human behaviour. Humankind is BARBARIC. It as considered as a normal behaviour & never stops it. But killing of MINORITIES by WHITE or Hindoos that think they're a SUPERIOR race is the barbaric thing. 😮

    • @dioghaltasfoirneartach7258
      @dioghaltasfoirneartach7258 Před 5 měsíci +16

      By the murderer...

    • @osric1730
      @osric1730 Před 5 měsíci

      @@dioghaltasfoirneartach7258 And the state.

  • @KarlBraveman
    @KarlBraveman Před 5 měsíci +22

    The whole death row phenomenon is cruel and unusual. This seems to mark a new low.

  • @edwardkantowicz4707
    @edwardkantowicz4707 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Sick

    • @ptonpc
      @ptonpc Před 5 měsíci

      If you have to go, this is one of the better ways.

  • @violinistoftaupo
    @violinistoftaupo Před 5 měsíci +11

    You'd think the U. S., having tried various forms of execution, would abolish the death penalty altogether. Justice can be served and the victims' families given peace, by giving a defendant a life sentence.

  • @rollins360
    @rollins360 Před 5 měsíci +1

    This is so wrong

  • @RichardRamirez1st
    @RichardRamirez1st Před 5 měsíci +4

    This is not justice this is sadistic. Our laws need to be reformed serve sentences & be allowed to live better lives after evaluation this here does not fit a lost cause he has shown to be someone who has een tamed . This human beings life is being taken advantage of along with his family

    • @osier769
      @osier769 Před 5 měsíci +3

      With a name like that, you would say something like this. 🙄

  • @andrewb9441
    @andrewb9441 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Death penalty needs to end

  • @sLazar5520
    @sLazar5520 Před 5 měsíci +4

    Shameful! No place for death penalty in 2024!

    • @JimboReed-md8pk
      @JimboReed-md8pk Před 5 měsíci +3

      Another "woke" robot. Shut it

    • @sLazar5520
      @sLazar5520 Před 5 měsíci +1

      ​@@JimboReed-md8pklet me guess, you're going to be voting for that arrogant monster Trump?

  • @maryelkins308
    @maryelkins308 Před 5 měsíci +4

    That is cruel I don’t like it…

  • @patshiels5429
    @patshiels5429 Před 5 měsíci +3

    Wrong

  • @Whitey_Ford
    @Whitey_Ford Před 5 měsíci +2

    This is cruel
    In so many ways. I used to be for the death penalty. Not anymore. Making another wrong from a wrong will never make a right !!!

    • @mamamia8284
      @mamamia8284 Před 5 měsíci

      What the UK did to Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans was infinitely more cruel and they actually suffered unlike this murderer. And the only “crime” Alfie and Charlie ever committed was having a serious illness. Some of you in the UK have a very twisted sense of morality. Very confusing to me.

  • @brockit79
    @brockit79 Před 5 měsíci +1

    And Brits want rid of the ECHR...

    • @elvishprincess321
      @elvishprincess321 Před 5 měsíci +4

      plenty of countries not in ECHR don't have a death penalty, even some US states don't have the death penalty and abolished it 100 years before the UK did.

    • @osric1730
      @osric1730 Před 5 měsíci

      @@elvishprincess321 Don't waste your breath. The institution has the word "European" and "Human Rights" in the title, no amount of rationality will stop the OP going into a carpet chewing, mouth foaming frenzy at the very mention of it.

    • @PORRRIDGE_GUN
      @PORRRIDGE_GUN Před 5 měsíci +1

      Most Brits do not want rid of the ECHR.

    • @brockit79
      @brockit79 Před 5 měsíci

      @@PORRRIDGE_GUN me included, sadly extreme right-wing views are dominating politics right now so I guess we'll see. The majority that voted to leave the European Union didn't think too hard about the possibility of nutters taking over wanting to denounce and renounce the EHCR just to keep themselves in a job (whilst simultaneously jeopardising others').

    • @awatt
      @awatt Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@PORRRIDGE_GUN
      Just out of interest has there been an opinion poll asking that?

  • @TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar
    @TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar Před 5 měsíci +27

    The death penalty is always wrong.

    • @user-gl7xm3kf3y
      @user-gl7xm3kf3y Před 5 měsíci +1

      so?

    • @user-mh7ng4vn9l
      @user-mh7ng4vn9l Před 5 měsíci

      @@user-gl7xm3kf3y🤦 IQ=30

    • @bundesautobahn7
      @bundesautobahn7 Před 5 měsíci +4

      Going eye for and eye doesn‘t bring justice, it doesn‘t undo what they‘ve done.

    • @user-mh7ng4vn9l
      @user-mh7ng4vn9l Před 5 měsíci

      @@bundesautobahn7 Exactly, but some people are stuck at that level of thinking, unfortunately

    • @user-gl7xm3kf3y
      @user-gl7xm3kf3y Před 5 měsíci

      It does bring justice.@@bundesautobahn7