Crime & Justice

Inmate’s Spiritual Adviser Breaks Down Describing Nitrogen Execution

‘THAT WAS TORTURE’

“He began to convulse. He popped up on the gurney over and over and over again.”

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

Breaking News Editor

Jeff Hood, the spiritual adviser to Kenneth Smith, became emotional describing Smith’s execution using nitrogen gas.
Micah Green/Reuters
Dan Ladden-Hall

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