Alabama inmate put to death in first U.S. nitrogen gas execution 03:00. Alabama carried out its planned execution of the condemned inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday night using nitrogen ...

A spiritual advisor for executed Alabama inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith and his family said staffers inside the execution chamber at W.C. Holman Correctional Facility Thursday night could not mask ...

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 ...

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 58 ...

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 is scheduled to become the country’s first inmate put to death by nitrogen gas. Alabama Department of Corrections/AFP via Getty Images.

Killer-for-hire Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, on Thursday became the first ever US prisoner to be executed using nitrogen gas, which had never been officially tested beforehand.

Kenneth Eugene Smith became the first person in the world to be put to death using nitrogen gas, after his execution was carried out on Thursday at an Alabama prison.. Smith, 58, was pronounced ...

"Kenneth Eugene Smith chose $1,000 over the life of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett, and he was guilty, no question about it. Some three decades ago, ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith, a man who survived his first execution attempt, is set to face the death penalty again, but this time, things will be different. On November 17, 2022, Smith spent four hours ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith is about to be executed by nitrogen gas. How can it be stopped? The US Supreme Court and a lower appeals court both declined to block Smith’s execution on Wednesday.

Breathing through a nitrogen-filled face mask that deprived him of oxygen, 58-year-old convicted killer Kenneth Eugene Smith convulsed in seizurelike spasms for at least two minutes of the 22 ...