Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Hamm said prison staff tried for about an hour to get the two required intravenous lines connected to Kenneth Eugene Smith, 57. Hamm said they ...

Attorneys for Kenneth Eugene Smith claimed on Friday the state violated the U.S. Constitution, various court orders and its own lethal injection protocol during the "botched" execution attempt ...

Alabama carried out its planned execution of the condemned inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday night using nitrogen hypoxia, a controversial and widely-contested death penalty method used for ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was executed in Alabama on Thursday night with nitrogen gas, a controversial method that causes oxygen deprivation that has been criticized as inhumane, following a ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith, a 58-year-old convicted killer, was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. Thursday at an Alabama prison after breathing the gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation.

Kenneth Eugene Smith was put to death by nitrogen gas on Thursday night, the first time the method was used in capital punishment in the U.S. By Anna Betts and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Alabama ...

Police identified the victim as Eugene Smith, 31, of D.C. Officers responded about 11:45 p.m. to the 3100 block of Branch Avenue for a reported shooting, police said. Officers found Smith with ...

The all-Republican court in a 6-2 decision granted the state attorney general's request for an execution warrant for Kenneth Eugene Smith. The order did not specify the execution method ...