Louisiana had gone more than a decade without any executions. Now, state leaders are ramping up efforts to carry out those sentences for death row inmates.

If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June, the same number will have taken place in the first half of ...

Most of the 23 states that still have an active death penalty allow a certain number of journalists to witness executions, as ...

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 th… ...

This undated photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife.

Many leading criminal justice advocacy organizations considered 2023 to be their most productive year in a long time, as 35 states passed legislation recognizing the inequities in our current syste… ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith became the first US death row inmate executed by ... like Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed concern at the “novel ... Mr. Smith has answered for his horrendous crimes.

Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith has been executed by nitrogen gas – making him the first person in US history to be put to death through the controversial method. Smith, 58, was ...

O n Thursday evening, the state of Alabama executed Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen gas. Now, there are dueling narratives about what happened. Alabama claims it went perfectly, proving that ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith became the first person in the world to be put to death using nitrogen gas, after his execution was carried out on Thursday at an Alabama prison.. Smith, 58, was pronounced ...

ATMORE, Ala. (WHNT) — Kenneth Eugene Smith, the man convicted of the 1988 murder-for-hire killing of Elizabeth Sennett, became the first known person to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia on ...

Officials said Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. at a prison in Atmore, Ala., after breathing pure nitrogen gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation.