Smith rarely speaks with reporters about surviving a lethal injection execution in 2022. But he talked with NPR about Alabama's plans to try again, this time with a new method: nitrogen gas.

Alabama plans to put death row prisoner Kenneth Smith to death today using an untested and very controversial execution method that has erupted a wave of harrowing warnings ... (Image: Find a Grave) ...

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 went through with its planned execution on Thursday of Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was the first condemned inmate in the U.S. put to death using nitrogen gas.

Convulsing and gasping for air, Kenneth Smith appeared to struggle for several minutes before his death Thursda y in an Alabama execution chamber.. The details of what appeared to be a drawn-out ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed in Alabama on Jan. 25, 2023, using ... noting there is "no scientific evidence to prove" that execution by nitrogen inhalation will not cause "grave suffering ...

Alabama is set to execute Kenneth Smith today, 35 years after the 1988 murder of Elizabeth Sennett. His accomplice, John Forrest Parker was also executed in 2010 ...

The Supreme Court rejected Kenneth Smith's argument that it would be unconstitutional for the state to attempt a second execution after a failed lethal injection in 2022.

Smith rarely speaks with reporters about surviving a lethal injection execution in 2022. But he talked with NPR about Alabama's plans to try again, this time with a new method: nitrogen gas.

Smith rarely speaks with reporters about surviving a lethal injection execution in 2022. But he talked with NPR about Alabama's plans to try again, this time with a new method: nitrogen gas.