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 ...
Alabama has executed convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas, the first time the method of capital punishment has been used globally. A witness told the BBC that Smith thrashed ...
Kenneth Eugene Smith, an inmate in the US State of Alabama, Thursday became the first person ever to be put to death through the controversial nitrogen hypoxia mechanism. “Tonight Alabama caused ...
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 ...
Using nitrogen gas as an execution method for those on death row has been criticised as so "cruel" courts are refusing to watch it play out. It comes as death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith ...
The justices have twice declined, along with a federal appeals court, to block what Kenneth Eugene Smith's lawyers call a "cruel and unusual" punishment. Opponents say using nitrogen gas could ...
Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted of murder, was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. Photo: Dan Anderson/Shutterstock ...