The uncompleted execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith was the state's second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate in the past two months and its third since 2018.
. The state completed an execution in July, but only after a three-hour delay caused at least partly by the same problem with starting an IV line.
“So Alabama has more aborted lethal injections in the past few years than the rest of the country has overall,” she said.“I think Alabama clearly has some explaining to do, but also some reflection to do about what is going wrong in its execution process,” she said. “The question is whether Alabama is going to take that seriously.”
“The department will continue to review its processes, as it routinely does following each execution, to identify areas of improvement.” Smith, who was scheduled to be put to death for the murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife in 1988, was returned to death row at Holman Prison after surviving the attempt, a prison official said. His lawyers declined to comment Friday morning.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey also blamed Smith's last minute appeals as the reason the execution was not carried out.
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