Death penalty: Kenneth Eugene Smith says wait for untested execution like 'torture' - RocketNews

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : "I'll be a number of feet from him, and I have been warned repeatedly by various medical experts that I'm risking my life to do this.
48% : As he spends his final days on death row, he says he is haunted by thoughts of the untested procedure.
44% : Face-to-face meetings between journalists and death row prisoners are prohibited in Alabama.
42% : Associated PressAlabama has one of the highest per capita execution rates in the US and has 165 people currently on death row.
41% : If there's any sort of leak in the hose, if there's any sort of leak from the mask, from the seal around his face, it could certainly lead to nitrogen leaking into the room," Dr Hood told the BBC.That amounts to an intolerable level of danger, says one expert who co-authored an investigation sent to the UN.
37% : Since 2018, the state has been responsible for three botched attempts at lethal injection in which the condemned inmates survived.

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