Why Does Alabama Keep Bungling Executions?

<p>The plates here usually say &ldquo;Heart of Dixie,&rdquo; just in case you&rsquo;ve forgotten that Montgomery was the first capital of the Confederacy. But the state&rsquo;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.&sup1; In each case an attempted lethal injection went horrifically awry.</p> <p>The state&rsquo;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> <p><a href="https://medium.com/politically-speaking/why-does-alabama-keep-bungling-executions-3f39aa46aad4"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>