“When the execution started and he began to writhe ... shoes nervously tapping sounded “like tap dancing.” Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was executed in Alabama Thursday night via nitrogen ...

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 ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith is set to become the first person in the world to be executed using nitrogen gas. Smith was sentenced to death in 1996 after being convicted of capital murder for his role in ...

The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected convicted killer Kenneth Eugene Smith’s request for a preliminary injunction to stop his scheduled Jan. 25 execution by the new method, in which he ...

Mr Truk said in a statement: “I deeply regret the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith in Alabama despite serious concerns this novel and untested method of suffocation by nitrogen gas may amount ...

ahead of the scheduled execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. The state plans to put Smith to death with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been used in the ...

The state of Alabama executed convicted killer Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday in a first-of-its-kind execution using nitrogen gas to asphyxiate the inmate. Smith, 58, was the first person in the ...

The U.N. Human Rights Office and the European Union on Friday condemned the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas, a previously untested method of capital punishment that's drawn ...

The execution took about 22 minutes from the time between the opening and closing of the curtains to the viewing room. For at least two minutes, Smith appeared to shake and writhe on the gurney ...

Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed on Thursday, almost three decades after he was convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire plot of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett. Sennett was found ...

And Smith has a well-documented medical condition posing special risks from the State's newly chosen method of execution.” Alabama Death Row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith has been executed with ...

asks Sean O’Grady Five news reporters watched through a window as Kenneth Eugene Smith convulsed on a gurney as Alabama carried out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas. Alabama ...