Human Rights Campaigner Explains Why Murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith Shouldn't Be Executed
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ม.ค. 2024
- Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell explains why Kenneth Eugene Smith should not become the first nitrogen execution in the US.
Mr Smith was sentenced to death in 1996 after being convicted of capital murder for his role in the death of 45-year-old Elizabeth Sennett, who was a pastor’s wife in Colbert County.
The jury reached a verdict of 11 to 1 to sentence him to life in prison, but the judge overrode the panel’s decision and sent him to death.
Peter says: "What that man did was absolutely atrocious... but don't kill him that's resorting to his method."
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It was not as cruel of a death as his victim suffered and how is this guy an expert on morality?
He's an expert in building a kinder society where the solution to justice isn't violent.
@@IncompetentKlutz unless he has lost a child to a violent criminal as I have he is no expert and nieth are you for you lack the ability to have witnessed both sides of the issue first hand.
@@user-bd5nh5eb4b I am so sorry for your loss. I can't imagine what you have been through. I wish you healing.
Then don't murder people and you won't be executed.
Quite right, because the american legal system is always that perfect.
he murdered for money....the one who hired him was a preacher who commited suicide....they have tried once to execute him but it failed...lets hope its a case of 2nd time lucky
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In this case it's very cut and dry.
Brit in the UK, ideally, justice systems should aim to be more moral and more human than those they are punishing.
Oh shut up did the victim get sympathy for her life ?
He's grinning on his mug shot so he had no remorse for his victim.
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That's not his mugshot lmao he's like 50 years old in that pic
This is True...
He had 30 years of Life more then he gave his poor Victim.
How about how that woman felt
Look at peter tatchells history not good reading.
Tatchell is clueless.
Tell that to the victim's
If it is undeniable that someone maliciously killed someone, why are outsiders worried about the adverse side effects with the person facing execution? The roles could be switched; what mercy was given to the victim by the killer?
Because miscarriages of justice happen, and when they do the grim blood of the innocent is on everyone’s hand that pays taxes
Because cruelty begets cruelty
But they said all that in the video guess you didn’t watch it
@The_CGA yes, I watched it. I texted it as a question, but it was intended as rhetorical. If the person is undeniably the killer (via confession or sufficient proof), I do not see execution an issue.
Because it's a new method and they don't know what's gonna happen, I get your point about what he did but there's something sinister about using a human as a guinea pig.
@mariewalmsley6143 yes, I can certainly see the downside of this. Who knows its application later on.
@@The_CGAIn some countries they cut hands off for stealing. In some states we put bad people to death. LGBTQIA2S+ has equal rights finally!
As an Australian, I wish our government had the balls to give our worst of the worst some cruel and unusual punishment, instead of protective custody!
2:18 suffocation?!@?!?!?!? NO NO NO NO. Suffocation has a definition and it's definition matters. "the state or process of dying from being deprived of air or unable to breathe." No one is being deprived of air and no one is being deprived of the ability to breathe. Which means they can still exhale CO2 which means they won't have a build up of CO2 in their system which means....................they will NEVER have the panic of NOT being able to breathe.
Exactly. I honestly have no idea what that person is raving on about. As far as the empirical and observational data is concerned: this method was used by a number of humans who had severe, torturously painful medical conditions because they wanted to die peacefully. The very danger of Nitrogen Hypoxia is being unable to detect that one is hypoxic before one passed out. In the actual animal experiments - pigs who were eating when their breathable oxygen was displaced with Nitrogen, - suddenly collapsed and passed out, then went right back to eating after their oxygen intake was restored. They didn't exactly run away in panic and fear. Some of the pilots who experienced it reported giddiness and euphoria. This has got to be the most ethically innocuous method of killing a mammal.
WOW.
Stop talking crap!!
You're talking to yourself though @@UXB-p5u
Try not to use logic and reason. Talk TV bit is not for education and information but rather for bashing the United States and expressing their personal opinions.
Don't play stupid games to win dumb prizes how bout that?
British talking about the death penalty 😂😂
The victim was killed in an inhuman way, they experience the lapse of oxygen. Killers are handled with kindness not the victim.
An eye for an eye.
Do you know where that statement come from an eye 4 and eye if that were so you won't be here!!!
No one knows exactly where the statement comes from, but we think it's probably from an ancient mesopotamian culture. @@aronwilliams9780
Try to grow spiritually as a human being.
@@sphenoidjjj try living in the real world.
Gods law the Old Testament
I think it's more torteous to be in prison until the day you die than death penalty. I'd be like kill me now. Oj isn't exactly the most average trial to go in. It was a ridiculous spectacle.
It's pretty evil he was grinning in his mugshot like he's proud
Lol
That is not his mugshot, that was a recent photo like over 35 years after the murder..
"Whoever takes a human life shall be put to death," - Leviticus 24:17
A pastor had his wife killed 😢 and where is jesus???
Hiding under the bed 😂
Two wrongs don't make a right
Well is that what they are planing to do to humanity in the future by doing this act ?
RIP..., poor soul...We, as a society today, are no better than you were 38 years ago... In fact we are worse... A man who made a mistake and spent his entire life - 38 years- paying for it, trying to better/ redeem himself and help others to do the same, not getting bitter and evil while in jail for his entire life... is punished today by other guilty people... And they could not even do it humanly... Are we now using gas chambers to kill people like Nazis did in Auschwitz? Shame on today's society...
Exactly.
I honestly feel like we have much growing to do as society. Im in dismay that some countries still choose to execute. It's beyond me. As you have mentioned people have the ability to change and better themselves. As humans, we all have this ability. To execute somebody is to say that people can not change or redeem themselves. It's scary that we live in this society. Execution is vengeance it is not justice.
Killing is wrong and against the law. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, the murder rate in non-death penalty states has remained consistently lower than the rate in states with the death penalty, and the gap has grown since 1990 1. A survey by the New York Times found that during the last 20 years, the homicide rate in states with the death penalty has been 48% to 101% higher than in states without the death penalty 2.
However, it is important to note that the relationship between the death penalty and murder rates is a complex issue, and there are many factors that can influence crime rates. Some studies have suggested that the death penalty may not be an effective deterrent to violent crime
“Very good eyes and good face” ?
You can't kill ppl it's a crime. Yet the State of Alabama does the same 😞🤷♀️ He's already served 30yrs, just keep him in prison. I don't believe we have the right to take anyone's life period! I'm British and live over here in US. Kevin, a lot of things are weird here
So we keep paying?
What is weird here? Perhaps it is just different than your culture.
So you would never take another’s life??
The government is allowed to kill people as punishment because they are an authority. It's like how parents are allowed to strike their children as punishment, but children aren't allowed to strike other people for any reason. It's because the parents are the authority
That is perhaps the dumbest explanation on why the state should enforce the death penalty I've ever heard.
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Has this poor man not been punished enough? 35 years in prison and botched execution?... I don't condone his actions, but he was a teenager then and has made a huge mistake recruited by other criminals... There is absolutely NO EXCUSE!!! But the late husband should be charged... Shame that children of the deceased don't have heart to forgive this man... Their father was the one, who stole their mother from them... Kenneth has very kind eyes and good face, so I don't believe he is evil, as other criminals, he was just a kid who made a huge mistake... No excuse... But he already paid plenty... Can people not learn to forgive and give another human a chance? Maybe he can change the world given another chance? Execution is just as inhumane as what he did 40 years ago... It's not helping anyone...
The husband committed suicide just after the murder occured, just letting you know.....
Do I listen to this Gay???
Would you listen to Alexander of Macedon?