Kenneth Eugene Smith was put to death by nitrogen gas on Thursday night, the first time the method was used in capital punishment in the U.S. By Anna Betts and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Alabama ...

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 ...

ATMORE, Ala. - The State of Alabama executed death row inmate Kenneth Smith on Thursday at the Holman Correctional Facility.The 58-year-old Smith was put to death with nitrogen gas, the first time ...

Alabama may become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen, a death penalty method that is authorized by three states but has never been used.

A spiritual advisor for executed Alabama inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith and his family said staffers inside the execution chamber at W.C. Holman Correctional Facility Thursday night could not mask the… ...

The state executed Kenneth Smith on Thursday using the untested method of nitrogen hypoxia after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. transcript Kenneth Smith was sentenced to death for the ...

Alabama on Thursday night executed Kenneth Smith, the first death row inmate known to die by nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of execution in the United States that ...

But Kenneth Smith’s goodness or badness does not matter. He was convicted of a crime, and a punishment was set. That punishment was death, not death by torture.

The spiritual adviser who prayed with Kenneth Eugene Smith before Alabama executed him Thursday night by nitrogen gas described it as “torture” that shocked witnesses and the prison officials ...