Spiritual advisor to executed inmate Kenneth Smith discusses his experience
Reverend Jeff Hood, who served as the spiritual advisor to executed inmate Kenneth Smith, talks about Smith's final moments.
Hood prayed with Kenneth Eugene Smith before Alabama executed him Thursday night by nitrogen gas and described it as “torture” that shocked witnesses and the prison officials standing nearby.
Smith became the first inmate to die using the new method of execution never before tested in the United States.
He was sentenced to die in the murder-for-hire plot of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett in her home in Colbert County in 1988. Sennett was a pastor’s wife who was beaten and stabbed.
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