Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith has been executed by nitrogen gas – making him the first person in US history to be put to death through the controversial method. Smith, 58, was ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith Alabama Department of Corrections Under the proposed method, hypoxia would be caused by forcing the inmate to breathe only nitrogen, depriving them of oxygen needed to ...

The state of Alabama executed Kenneth Smith for the 1988 murder of a pastor’s wife. ... Kenneth Smith Is First Inmate Executed by Nitrogen Hypoxia. Crime. January 26, 2024.

Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed on Thursday, almost three decades after he was convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire plot of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett.

The execution of Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Smith was called off on Thursday night, after authorities spent an hour trying to set up an intravenous (IV) line for his lethal injection.

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, will become the country’s first inmate executed by nitrogen gas, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, rejecting Smith’s second attempt to halt the experimental ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, ... Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Smith to be first-ever executed using controversial method By . Alyssa Guzman. Published Jan. 25, 2024, 5:49 p.m. ET.

A CONVICTED murderer blasted the state of Alabama for “causing humanity to take a step backward” in his final moments before being put to death in the first-ever execution by nitrogen gas. Ke… ...

The US Supreme Court has sided with Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, 57, who survived an alleged botched execution and seeks to eventually be put to death by nitrogen hypoxia.

Smith's execution by lethal injection was called off last year because of problems with intravenous lines. Smith was convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife .

Justices without comment rejected the Alabama attorney general's request to review an 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision regarding inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith.

An Alabama judge granted an emergency motion on Friday to preserve evidence filed by the attorneys of death row inmate Kenneth Smith after his execution was called off on Thursday night.