Kenneth Smith was ‘absolutely terrified’ at the prospect of the second attempt at executing him, which involved untried methods vets refuse to use on animals.
Just before 8pm, prison guards swarmed into the death cell holding inmate Kenneth Smith (pictured) and summarily prepared him for execution. He d been on the phone to his wife Dee.
Alabama’s corrections department has bungled the procedure on three recent occasions, with IV teams failing on hours at end, adding immense distress to a difficult situation. This article contains descriptions of physical harm
still on the rise. and there s a new omicron subvariant in at least 20 states after being detected in 49 countries. it s being called the stealth variant and even harder to detect than omicron. so, joining us an affiliate assistant professor at washington, a pullmanologist and msnbc contributor. how worried do we need to be about the new subvariant? good morning. still really early. ait appears to be contagious like the original omicron variant. the vaccines are still doing what they re supposed to be doing. keeping people away from green scrubs. you might inhale this variant in the air. that s okay. that doesn t mean the vaccines don t work.