Michael Dewayne Smith received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and was pronounced dead at 10:20 a.m., Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesperson Lance West said. The Rev. Jeff Hood, Smith’s spiritual adviser, joins “Banfield” to discuss the execution.
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RIP
Life gives us what we give in life
How cruel and usual was the crime? Crocodile tears for the perpetrator where are the tears for the victim?
How cruel and unusual was his victim's death? By the way the Consitution explicitly allows for executions as a sentence.
what are his charges? seems strange that the charges wouldn't be mentioned here
He should have counseling he. Should be here and having his life his life maters
No matter what it is he should be here doing his life he is a young man people change with wonders from god ❤
Heartbreaking? what of the victims and their loved ones?
Who are the real killers in America?
Come in this room we have your reparations ready. April fools
I agree – no excuse for death penalty. Sitting in prison for the rest of your life away from society where you can’t hurt anyone else is enough.
I used to believe in the death penalty until I became a Christian. Now I view in from a different perspective.
200 years ago when people committed crimes sending them to prison the way we do now wasn’t an option and so it was handled differently. We have no excuse today – the people involved in sentencing him to death will one day have to answer to God for their choice.
If God can forgive and change Paul – he can forgive and change anyone.
I don’t think the purpose of the death sentence is about teaching people not to kill, but about ending the life of a person who would continue to do more harm than good if left to live and those whose crimes are so handouts that even if they never do wrong again they don’t deserve our tax dollars to support their life in prison. What I don’t understand is how some serial killers rot in jail and some people get the death sentence seemly fast. The viewers of this clip have no idea what happened to lead to this guys conviction. If he kidnapped, tortured, and then killed people, then yes, I think it was justified to get the death sentence, but if he got in a fight with someone and it escalated to a death, then I need to know how the law thought he should die.
Remember the deleted victims had to choice neither …a holy man of the cloth suppose to fight for good not Evil …
Fry Micheal smith oh wait they did 😂😂😂
Everyone that's in prison ain't GUILTY. Everyone that they executed ain't GUILTY.
They all innocent on the row aren’t they 😂 ps nah we good byebye Micheal ✌️
Adios
Justice served
Let's hear what his sentence was for..because it doesn't fit the narrative..lol..media is useless propaganda..FJB and the propaganda machine too.
Dude murdered 2 ppl. Eye for an eye
He didn’t kill in self defense…he didn’t kill someone that had wronged him and it wasn’t an accident.
I sickened that your show would give him this much air time with even a moniker of sympathetic light.
I could never impose death.
What was lacking humanity was what he did to his victims. Tired of this woke bs, always crying for criminals but never their victims.
The prison system is more cruel.
I know it can be difficult to reconcile the execution of a prisoner who is no longer a threat but for many victims of violent crime it is not about vengeance, It is about “Closure”. It is about knowing he is gone and never coming back. Even though the offender is in prison victims can be left in fear of having to go through it all again. Closure can be the difference between moving on or not. Closure matters.
He cried? What a weak coward.
It's hard 😪 !
I like the Reverend. Very much appreciate him being featured here.
What about the lack of humanity that convicted criminal showed towards his victim? … This is why the West is dying. They love criminals and despise the law abiding citizens.
The constitution does not define the death penalty for murder as cruel and unusual punishment. That preacher is a false teacher and a false christ, who opposes Christ. The very bible that is the foundation for his religion calls for this.
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Is a spiritual advisor supposed to discuss someone private moments on national TV?
Smith, 41, was sentenced to death in Oklahoma after his convictions two decades ago in the murders of Janet Moore, a 41-year-old mother, and Sharath Pulluru, a 22-year-old store clerk. The shootings that killed them were carried out separately on Feb. 22, 2002, while Smith was already on the run in the wake of a prior killing, authorities have said. SPARE US ON THE BLEEDING HEART CRAP!! HE TOOK 3 LIVES!!!
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Too many death row inmates get to live too long.
this country needs to bring back enforcing death penalties.
define humanity and reason
preacher..
bleeding heart liberalism is cancer on society for that lack of definition
go visit the victims now..
😔 RIP. the death penalty is morally wrong. "we don't have to kill each other to teach each other not to kill each other" – his reverend said.
america has the worst human rights of any first world country, the highest incarceration rate, and engaged in cruel and unusual punishment. america is shameful.
Gimmie a break !!! He wasnt hungry or didnt want shish on himself ?!!
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An Eye for an Eye a Tooth for a Tooth no sympanthy for him
Its all about the jail house prophet. I i i what about the victims i pray for them.
I guess for people who don't agree with the death penalty until we are in the families shoes we won't really know how we'll feel if our loved one was take away. We all have opinions and that is just that opinions and we are all entitiled to it but with the death of a loved one taken away from us in such a brutal way we just can't speak for those grieving the lost of their loved one in such a horrific brutal way.
As yourself why he was there.
Wot about the poor victims ❤❤
Rev. Hood? Not surprised
OMG this is terrible how could they do this to a KILLER ffs hes a scumbag