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I think there was a pressure to have a method that looked more humane than

electrocution and lethal gas.

On that van, when I go back to the hotel where the other people,

I had been in there praying with his family,

and I had to go in and tell him, you know, John's gone. It was peaceful.

He didn't appear to suffer.

This is how lethal injection actually kills you.

It kills you by burning your lungs up.

And you're also paralyzed so you can't complain that this is happening. Good afternoon, everybody.

Thank you for being here.

Hope everybody had a wonderful holiday, but I haven't seen you since then.

Call this press conference today because I believe the people of Alabama deserve an explanation on where things stand and where I stand with regard to capital punishment in our state.

It's early December 2022, Montgomery, Alabama.

Steve Marshall, the state's Attorney General, is holding a press conference, standing at the podium, flanked by the Alabama and American flags.

What occurred on November 17th was a travesty, but not for the reasons that many death penalty opponents and death row sympathizers would have the public to believe.

My name is Malcolm Globwell.

You're listening to The Alabama Murders,

our series on the Elizabeth Senate case.

This is episode five, cruel and unusual.

It's about the second of her assailants, Kenny Smith,

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