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 ...

The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied. 11/16/2022: Reply of applicant Kenneth Eugene Smith filed. Recent Posts View All. Just the Fax . June 20, 2025 . Read more Additional opinions from ...

6:49 p.m. – Smith’s petition for a stay was denied by the Supreme Court. The application for the stay of execution was presented to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who then referred it ...

Kenneth Smith is scheduled to be executed in Alabama on November 17. ... he could not have been eligible for execution," his attorneys wrote in the petition to the High Court.

Alabama executed Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas Thursday night, making him not only the first U.S. inmate to be put to death this year but the first person to ever die by the controversial ...