Alabama calls off execution after problem with venous access
This undated photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife. Smith, 57, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection at a south Alabama prison on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. .ATMORE, Ala.
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution when at about 10:20 p.m. it lifted a stay issued earlier in the evening by the 11th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals. But the state determined about an hour later that the lethal injection would not happen that evening. It is the second execution since September that the state has canceled because of difficulties with establishing an IV.
Alabama has faced scrutiny over its problems at recent injections. In a Thursday hearing in Smith's case, a federal judge asked the state how long was too long to try to establish a line. According to appellate court documents, Smith told police in a statement that it was,"agreed for John and I to do the murder” and that he took items from the house to make it look like a burglary. Smith’s defense at trial said he participated in the attack but that he did not intend to kill her, according to court documents.
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