Blood on my hands.

boofredlay

Anybody know what kind of snake this is? I killed in our front yard just now. He is dead in this picture but still had muscle reactions... shudder. After the photos I cut it's head off just for good measure. I will spare you the multitude of photos my daughter took of that.
That is a yard stick it is next to (3 Foot stick). He must have been at least 4 feet long but I could not straighten him out all the way. Kept contracting.

Allen Weitzman

I would say you had a cottonmouth or water moccasin.

Glad you're rid of it. It is a poisonous viper.

Allen

boofredlay

Quite possible it was a Rat Snake too. Either way it is a Dead Snake.

http://www.dcnr.state.al.us/watchable-wildlife/what/Reptiles/Snakes/ratsnake.cfm

Gray Rat Snake

TIG

Looks like a gray rat snake...

1 Gray rat snakes are one of the longest snakes in North America, reaching lengths of up to 8 feet.
2 When threatened, rat snakes can "rattle" their tail, fooling other animals into believing they are venomous.
3 Like pythons and boas, rat snakes are constrictors, which suffocate/squash their prey.
4 Gray rat snakes are often found in trees, hiding in crevices or searching for food.
5 Unlike other rat snakes, gray rat snakes retain their juvenile coloration (speckled pattern) as adults.

Still I think it's better off dead when next to your home !
Unless of course you have a plague of rats ???

Humpmetwice

Its what we call down here in the south, a king snake, supposedly they eat other snakes as well as mice.

EscapeArtist

Looks like a rat snake to me, too. Pity it got killed, but if a snake were a threat to me it would get sent to the sunny-rock mouse-laden snake heaven in the sky pretty quickly. Too bad they're difficult to ID quickly, don't want to get bit while trying to decide if it's a non-venomous snake or not.