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Voices: Why do we treat our pets more humanely than a death row inmate?

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Kenneth Eugene Smith is a man on death row in Alabama, and… well, they don’t know how to kill him.

He’s been in jail since 1988, when he was convicted of the coldest or cold-blooded murders – a long sentence by any standards. He was one of two contact killers who, for $1,000 each, murdered the wife of a preacher who wanted her dead so he could collect the life insurance money. It was.

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