Supreme Court denies stay of execution for Kenneth Eugene Smith

Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith’s stay of execution request denied by U.S. Supreme CourtKenneth Smith is on Alabama's Death Row for the killing of Elizabeth Sennett .The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a petition for a stay of execution from Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, a day before Smith is set to die by lethal injection in the 1988 murder-for-hire killing of pastor’s wife.

“That legislatures throughout the country have abolished or do not permit judicial override of capital jury sentencing determinations constitutes ‘the “clearest and most reliable objective evidence of contemporary values”' that shows the practice is inconsistent with ‘evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society’ and violates the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution as applied to the States through incorporation into the Fourteenth Amendment,”...

Unleash the Half Naked Reporter. Can she wear them rubber britches? Hubba Hubba. Every Alabama condemned man's last wish is to see ALCOM's 'Half Naked Reporter'.

Death penalty needs to be abolished, alls it is ,is a cash grab for lawyers. The appeal process is ridiculous. Just keep them alive and miserable

Imagine thinking you're for conservative government and also not having a problem with judicial override.

A jury of his peers said no to the death penalty for this guy. Pro lifers should protest on his behalf.

Lethally injected with bullets

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