A witness to the first ever nitrogen hypoxia execution described the ‘horrific’ moment Kenneth Eugene Smith writhed in agony as he suffocated to death.
Smith, 58, had a tight gas mask placed over his face before a stream of 100 percent nitrogen gas suffocated him inside the execution chamber at the William C. Holman prison in Atmore, Alabama.
The moment was the ‘worst thing’ spiritual guider Jeff Hood said he had ever seen, claiming prison officials gasped in shock