A Decatur man charged with capital murder seeks protection from the death penalty even as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to reexamine, in an appeal by the state of Alabama, guidelines on when ...

The next prisoner scheduled to be executed in Alabama in 2022 was a ... Charles Sennett killed himself ... When the reporters and TV crews were gone, Dee, Steven, and his brother, Michael, ...

Alabama used the mask method last year when executing Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Sennett. Whether Smith’s nitrogen-gas execution was a success depends on how ...

Ten prisoners on death row have been executed so far this year, with more executions expected to come. The capital punishments took place at facilities in Alabama, Missouri, Georgia, Oklahoma and ...

Keith Edmund Gavin was executed by lethal injection at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama on July 18. Gavin was convicted of capital murder in 1999 and sentenced to death.

The move by the companies comes as a sharp rebuke to death penalty states, which have been keen on using nitrogen for executions but will likely face more challenges in obtaining supplies.. The use of ...

Mike Sennett, son of Elizabeth Sennett, and other family members speak after Kenneth Eugene Smith’s execution in Atmore, Alabama, on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024.

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 ...

Here’s what we know about the historic execution: In Alabama, 43 other inmates have requested new execution method ... Michael Sennett said at a news conference Thursday night.

A CONVICTED murderer blasted the state of Alabama for “causing humanity to take a step backward” in his final moments before being put to death in the first-ever execution by nitrogen gas. Ke… ...

Smith, who was declared dead at 8:25 p.m. CST, had been on death row more than three decades for participating in the murder-for-hire plot of Sennett in her home in Colbert County in 1988.