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.

A man who killed a store clerk during a robbery at a northeast Alabama convenience store in 1997 now knows when the state ...

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 ...

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.

An Alabama man who has spent nearly three decades on death row will soon be executed for the 1997 murder of a gas station ...

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 ...

Roberts killed Jones on April 22, 1992. He stole money from her wallet while she was asleep and then shot her three times in ...

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.

Alabama prepares to carry out first execution by nitrogen asphyxiation 04:40. A death row inmate in Alabama, Kenneth Eugene Smith, was executed Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, a controversial ...