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 ...

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 ...

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, a 58-year-old convicted killer, ... -nation EU and the Geneva-based U.N. rights office say the death penalty violates the right to life and does not deter crime.

Who is Kenneth Eugene Smith and what crime did he commit? Father-of-four Kenneth Eugene Smith was born on July 4, 1965, and has spent most of his life in prison.

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who has been on death row since 1990, was executed Thursday night, according to reports from CNN, CBS News and NPR. The execution began at 7:53 p.m. and Smith was pronounced ...

The state of Alabama tried to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith before and failed, so now they're trying something new. Similar botched executions have prompted the creation of a new method, yet ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a petition for a stay of execution from Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, a day before Smith is set to die by lethal injection in the 1988 ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith will be the first person in the world to be executed using nitrogen gas , for his 1988 murder of Elizabeth Sennett. But who was the victim? ... Crime Ohio Alabama.

The U.N. Human Rights Office and the European Union on Friday condemned the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas, a previously untested method of capital punishment that's drawn ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has set a date to execute a man by nitrogen hypoxia. Kenneth Eugene Smith murdered Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett. The Alabama Supreme Court ordered him to be executed not less ...

“Having failed to kill Smith on its first attempt, Alabama has selected him as its ‘guinea pig’ to test a […] The post Kenneth Eugene Smith shook violently on gurney during first-ever ...