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Roberts killed Jones on April 22, 1992. He stole money from her wallet while she was asleep and then shot her three times in ...
Kenneth “Kenny” Smith, 58, is set to die by nitrogen hypoxia today. Smith will breathe in the toxic gas through a mask, which will deprive his body of oxygen until he dies.
Alabama is readying an untried method of execution to carry out its death sentences – nitrogen hypoxia. The state approved the method in 2018, but it has not yet been used or tested.
The state of Alabama has executed Gregory Hunt by nitrogen hypoxia for the 1988 murder of Karen Lane. A doctor pronounced Hunt to dead at 6:26 p.m. June 10. His death marked Alabama's third execution ...
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 ...
On April 22, 1992, Roberts was staying as a houseguest at Wendell Satterfield's residence when he committed the crime. Jones, ...
Alabama’s development of a never-used nitrogen hypoxia method of execution is not final but could possibly be used next week, a lawyer for the state said in court Monday.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has vowed to push ahead with the execution of Kenneth Smith using an untested method, nitrogen hypoxia (Getty / The Independent) ...
The state first approved nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution in 2018, and the law allowed inmates already sitting on Alabama Death Row—most of whom are behind bars at Holman—a 30 day ...
The Alabama attorney general's office on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023 asked the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for death row inmate Kenneth Smith using nitrogen hypoxia.
Nitrogen hypoxia, the execution method being planned in Alabama, can cause rapid unconsciousness by starving the brain of oxygen. Alabama authorities were due to execute death row inmate Alan ...
ATMORE, Ala. (WKRG) — Carey Dale Grayson, 50, was executed by nitrogen hypoxia Thursday evening at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama. Grayson, who fought the restraints, was ...