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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Concerns, contradictions and the continued use of the death penalty in the U.S.

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, Npr, Daily, On Point

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

After a series of botched executions, Alabama could soon begin executing death row incarcerated people using lethal gas. Oklahoma, Mississippi, Missouri, California, Wyoming and Arizona have legalized execution by lethal gas. We hear why.

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We set our goodbyes and, you know, hugged. We hoped it wasn't our last, but we expected

1:08.9

it to be our last.

1:11.3

Dee Smith is married to Kenneth Eugene Smith, a prisoner in Alabama. Kenneth Eugene Smith

1:18.2

was found guilty of carrying out a murder for hire in 1988. He has been on death row

1:25.0

for the last 30 plus years. The 57-year-old was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection

1:32.1

at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility at 6 p.m. on November 17, 2022. For Dee, it

1:42.0

was the longest and hardest day of her life.

1:44.9

I was really trying not to think about losing him, you know, because I knew that the hardest

1:51.6

prayer was yet to come. I knew at that point, you know, like, once we got to that point

1:59.1

of actually being there to witness, it was, you know, I didn't know how I was going

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