Smith was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Nov. 17 for the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett.
in executions to review of the state’s capital punishment system, citing concerns for victims’ families that death sentences were delayed. Prison officials said they Smith’s execution for the night after they were unable to establish IV access within the 100-minute window between the court clearing the way for it to begin and a midnight deadline.
“The execution continued on in defiance of the Eleventh Circuit’s stay, with Mr. Smith remaining strapped to a gurney until nearly midnight,” attorneys wrote. Smith was jabbed with needles multiple times in his arms, hands, neck and collarbone region “well past the point at which the executioners should have known that it was not reasonably possible to access a vein” his attorneys wrote.
After multiple attempts, the execution team left the chamber and Smith and his attorneys later learned sometime before midnight that the execution had been called off for the night.
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