Alabama inmate executed with nitrogen gas was ‘shaking violently’ for 22 minutes, witnesses say

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Alabama inmate executed with nitrogen gas was ‘shaking violently’ for 22 minutes, witnesses say

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State executes Kenneth Smith with untested procedure that lawyers had argued amounted to cruel and unusual punishment

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The whole idea of it, and the process, and the people who scheme to support it… is absolutely ghoulish.
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  The death penalty, or using nitrogen to do it?

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