Alabama plans to use nitrogen hypoxia, an untried method, to execute death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday. Here's what that means.

Kenneth Eugene Smith might not have been put to death with nitrogen gas last week. That’s because the judge presiding over his trial, N Pride Tompkins, overruled the jury’s 11-to-1 ...

Eugene Kenneth Smith has spent decades on death ... Smith's fellow hitman, John Forrest Parker, was executed in 2010. At his trial Smith admitted to being present when the victim was killed ...

DEATH row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith writhed for minutes in his final moments as he was executed with deadly nitrogen gas. Kenneth, 58, was becoming part of a morbid history as the first man in ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith, an inmate in the US State of Alabama ... Kenny was subject to the death penalty only because his trial judge applied a since-repealed Alabama statute to override the jury's ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith was put to death Thursday night ... and her death was staged to look like a home invasion and burglary. At his trial Smith admitted to being present when she was killed ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith – who was convicted of a murder-for-hire killing that occurred in 1988 – was executed via nitrogen hypoxia, with pure nitrogen gas replacing his air supply. It marked the ...

The planned execution of an Alabama death row inmate by nitrogen hypoxia next week amounts to torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, a top United Nations human rights official ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted of murder, was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. Photo: Dan Anderson/Shutterstock ...