Why Does Alabama Keep Bungling Executions?
<p>The plates here usually say “Heart of Dixie,” just in case you’ve forgotten that Montgomery was the first capital of the Confederacy. But the state’s treatment of prisoners is heartless.</p>
<p>Earlier this month Alabama botched the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, the third inmate it has tried unsuccessfully to put to death since 2018.¹ In each case an attempted lethal injection went horrifically awry.</p>
<p>The state’s latest mangled execution was so cruel and incompetent it caused an outcry. Smith was strapped to a gurney for hours as officials tried to insert the two intravenous lines needed for the lethal drugs used by Alabama.</p>
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