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
James Phillip Barnes, a Florida death row inmate slated to die by execution Thursday for the brutal 1988 killing of a nurse he beat with a hammer, forwent the customary last meal, state corrections officials said.
The Florida Department of Corrections told Fox News Digital that Barnes declined to request the meal. State law allows inmates to request a last meal, which must be purchased locally and costs no more than $40.
Barnes, 61, will die by lethal injection at
At Holman Correctional Facility, in Atmore, Alabama, the prisoners have a tradition of beating their doors when guards take a man from the holding area colloquially known as the “death cell” to the execution chamber to be killed. More than 150 men slam their full strength against solid steel, rolling thunder down the halls. It’s a show of solidarity with the condemned man—not because he is presumed innocent or absolved, but because the men of death row are uncommonly aware
„Notes on an Execution“ ist zum Teil und oft eindrucksvoll ein Roman über diese Frauen. Aber es stimmt auch, dass Ansel das Herzstück des Romans bleibt und als konzeptueller Negativraum der Geschichte fungiert. Er und seine Verbrechen bleiben die Achse, um die sich die Geschichte dreht. Die Abschnitte von Lavender, Saffy und Hazel sind entsprechend der Zeitleiste seines Lebens sequenziert, beginnend mit seiner Kindheit bis hin zu seinem jungen Erwachsenenalter und schließlich seiner Gefangennahme. Auf diese Weise sind ihre Abschnitte
