There’s no doubt that Kenneth Eugene Smith, along with another man, killed Elizabeth Sennett in Alabama in 1988, a murder paid for by her husband, Charles Sennett. But the long road to Smith’s execution, which took place in January 2024 by a new method, nitrogen hypoxia, raises troubling questions about the death penalty, how it’s administered and what justice actually is. We discuss.
Maureen does an NNW review of the book “Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System,” by M. Christopher Fabricant.
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159. Lori Jane Kearsey mystery partially solved after 41 years
157. Who is really the a-hole?
156. Charles Terry, Shirley Coolen, and the Boston Strangler
155. ‘Justified’ injustice II: Katherine Hegarty, murdered by cops
154. ‘Justified’ injustice: Ambroshia Fagre and Kadhar Bailey
153. A double tragedy for the McKenna family
152. Maine 2023 Homicide List: 51 and counting
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151. Miriam Stoltz: When memory is murdered
Episode 150: The Berwind, mutiny or just plain murder?
149. Lessons learned from the Logan Clegg murder trial
148. Can you murder someone from 3,000 miles away?
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147. Gay panic: No justice for Frederic Spencer
146. Amber Cummings: A special justice
145. Amie Riley Unfinished Justice
144. James Cameron the worst kind of criminal
143. Gerald Goodale Part 2: Janet Brochu
142. The forgotten murder of Lillian MacDonald
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