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 ...

Alabama on Thursday night executed Kenneth Smith, the first death row inmate known to die by nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of execution in the United States that ...

Kenneth Smith, seen in this image from the Alabama Department of Corrections, was scheduled to be executed Thursday despite his jury's near-unanimous vote for life in prison.

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 ...

ATMORE, Ala. — Alabama carried out the world’s first known execution by nitrogen hypoxia Thursday. The unprecedented method was administered to Kenneth Eugene Smith, a prisoner on death row ...

Kenneth Smith’s nitrogen execution was ‘textbook’ and will be used again, Alabama AG says: updates. Attorney General Steve Marshall said that after Thursday night, ‘nitrogen hypoxia as a ...

A mugshot shows Kenneth Smith. He is the first person in the world to be executed via nitrogen oxide. Alabama Department of Corrections. After having a gas mask put on, Smith smiled, nodded and ...

Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith has been executed by nitrogen gas – making him the first person in US history to be put to death through the controversial method. Smith, 58, was ...

Alabama execution: Kenneth Smith killed by nitrogen gas in first death row case of its kind. Kenneth Smith was said to have thrashed violently and repeatedly gasped for air during the 22-minute ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, is set to be executed Thursday using a controversional, untested methode that some experts warn may not be as painless as officials tout.

Alabama on Thursday night executed Kenneth Smith, the first death row inmate known to die by nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of execution in the United States that ...