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 ...

“When the execution started and he began to writhe ... shoes nervously tapping sounded “like tap dancing.” Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was executed in Alabama Thursday night via nitrogen ...

ahead of the scheduled execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. The state plans to put Smith to death with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been used in the ...

Alabama Death Row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday night became the first prisoner to die using a new untested method of execution in the United States—suffocation by nitrogen gas.

The state of Alabama executed convicted killer Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday in a first-of-its-kind execution using nitrogen gas to asphyxiate the inmate. Smith, 58, was the first person in the ...

after the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal to stay the execution. Here are a few things to know about the case. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was one of three men convicted in the stabbing murder ...

And Smith has a well-documented medical condition posing special risks from the State's newly chosen method of execution.” Alabama Death Row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith has been executed with ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith was convicted in 1988 in the $1,000 (£790) murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett. Prosecutors said he and the other man were each paid $1,000 to kill Sennett on behalf ...

Mr Truk said in a statement: “I deeply regret the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith in Alabama despite serious concerns this novel and untested method of suffocation by nitrogen gas may amount ...

As witnesses including five news reporters watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to die in the 1988 murder-for hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett ...