Alabama execution: Prisoner ‘struggled for minutes’ earlier than dying

A prisoner in Alabama has grow to be the primary inmate on the planet to be executed with nitrogen gasoline.

Convicted assassin Kenneth Smith, 58, was put to dying utilizing the brand new approach after the US Supreme Court declined a authorized bid to halt his sentence.

However, witnesses stated Smith didn’t die right away and took a number of minutes to lose consciousness.

"We didn’t see somebody go unconscious in 30 seconds. What we saw was minutes of someone struggling for their life," one of many witnesses stated.

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