And a warning here that throughout the next 15 minutes or so, there's going to be some graphic descriptions.īRUENIG: So Kenny was strapped down to a gurney for, I believe, a total of 4 hours. Instead, here's what happened according to what Smith told her in that interview and his lawyers later laid out in legal briefs. But she never made it to the viewing room. He just wanted to make sure that he got down on the record what happened immediately while it was on his mind.ĭETROW: Bruenig had reported a series of stories about problems with lethal injection in Alabama, and so Smith had named her as a personal witness to his execution. They had tried to execute him, but they had failed.īRUENIG: They sat him down in the prison office and allowed him to make a phone call to his wife. Alabama officials had just tried to execute Kenneth Smith, who 34 years earlier had been convicted in the murder for hire of Elizabeth Sennett. And, you know, I don't think I've ever spoken to anyone in the course of my reporting who was so shaken.ĭETROW: It was last November. Elizabeth Bruenig says she has never done an interview like the one she did last year.ĮLIZABETH BRUENIG: He called me the night of his attempted execution.
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