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 ...

What did Kenneth Eugene Smith do? Smith was accused of being a hitman and was sentenced to death following his conviction in the 1989 murder of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett, a preacher's wife, in ...

ATMORE, Ala. (WHNT) – 58-year-old Kenneth Eugene Smith, convicted for a 1988 murder-for-hire killing, became the first known person to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday night.

This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife.

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was one of three men convicted in the stabbing murder of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett, 45, whose husband, a pastor, had recruited them to kill her in March 1988 in Colbert ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith, a 58-year-old convicted killer, ... Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said the execution was justice for the murder-for-hire killing of 45-year-old Elizabeth Sennett in 1988.

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was sentenced to death for his part in the 1988 murder for hire of Elizabeth Sennet, is set to be executed again after surviving a four-hour ordeal in 2022.

Kenneth Eugene Smith is scheduled to become the country’s first inmate put to death by nitrogen gas. ... was one of two men convicted of the murder-for-hire of a preacher’s wife in 1988.

Alabama plans to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith, convicted of a 1988 murder for hire, by lethal injection on Thursday at 6 p.m. His attorneys will argue the appeal of his death penalty case before ...

COLBERT COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — Kenneth Eugene Smith, convicted for a 1988 murder-for-hire killing, is set to become the first known person to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia.

Hood described the 22-minute death of Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, at Alabama’s WC Holman Correctional Facility as a scene from a horror movie. “They were told this is going to be quick, easy and ...

Alabama is preparing to execute a man convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife on Thursday evening. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 57, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection ...