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 ...

Frazier's execution by nitrogen gas comes a little more than a year after Kenneth Eugene Smith became the first person in the ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court has refused to grant a last-minute reprieve to an Alabama death row inmate facing the ... to block what Kenneth Eugene Smith's lawyers call a "cruel and unusual" punishment.

Critics and campaigners have said that using nitrogen gas as an execution method for those on death row is so cruel that courts refuse to watch the footage ...

Alabama executed Demetrius Frazier for the 1991 murder of 41-year-old Pauline Brown two days before Thanksgiving.

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 ...

Alan Eugene Miller, 59 ... the state's Supreme Court to set a date for the execution. READ MORE: Execution of Kenneth Smith could lead to more inmates being killed by gas On January 25, Kenneth ...

Governor Landry emphasized that this method will ensure Louisiana’s ability to carry out death sentences in a timely and effective manner.

Alabama executed a death-row inmate using nitrogen gas on Thursday, becoming the first U.S. state to carry out the procedure. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted of murder, was pronounced dead ...