Mike Rogers blasts UN effort to stop Alabama execution

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 o