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Smith’s execution by “nitrogen hypoxia” took around 22 minutes, according to media witnesses, who were led into a viewing room at the William C Holman correctional facility in Atmore shortly before 8 pm local time.

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[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

Did they screw it up? Hypoxia causes convulsions, that's a well known fact, so I don't get all the fuss about witnessing normal body functions in a dying body. Especially as people convulsing are unconscious.

The real torture here – and with all death sentences – is the years and decades long psychological torture while on death row. And rspecially in this case of course the first, botched execution attemped. Ramming needles for four hours into someone!