U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Saks) is pointing out the hypocrisy of the United Nations’ wanting to stop the state of Alabama from executing a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas.
The U.N. Human Rights Council says the execution should be canceled after some U.N. experts said they were “concerned that nitrogen hypoxia would result in a painful and humiliating death.”
Kenneth Eugene Smith was convicted of the 1988 murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Sennett in Colbert County and is scheduled to be executed by the new method on January 25.
“China unjustly executes thousands per year, including nonviolent offenders,” Rogers said on X, “all while committing genocide. So naturally, the UN Human Rights Council is focusing their efforts on stopping a humane method of execution on a convicted murderer in Alabama.”
China unjustly executes thousands per year, including nonviolent offenders, all while committing genocide. So naturally, the UN Human Rights Council is focusing their efforts on stopping a humane method of execution on a convicted murderer in Alabama.https://t.co/jq8ZGJwieT
— Mike Rogers (@RepMikeRogersAL) January 4, 2024
The experts — Morris Tidball-Binz, Alice Jill Edwards, Tlaeng Mofokeng and Margaret Satterthwaite — are part of the Human Rights Council’s special procedures program.
Rogers has been a long critic of the U.N. and introduced a bill that would withdraw the U.S. from the international organization. The congressman’s “American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2022″ would also withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO).
“The United Nations has repeatedly proven itself to be an utterly useless organization,” declared Rogers after introducing his legislation. “The UN’s founding charter states the UN’s mission ‘to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small.’ However, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has proven herself to be nothing more than a puppet for the Chinese Communist Party – aiding the CCP in playing down the very real and horrifying genocide being carried out against Uyghurs.”
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled in a 6-2 decision last year that the state is allowed to execute an inmate with nitrogen gas, which has never been used before to carry out an execution in the United States.
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on Twitter @Yaffee
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