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 ...

Alabama Death Row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday night became the first prisoner to die using a new untested method of execution in the United States—suffocation by nitrogen gas. The 58 ...

Alabama executed Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas Thursday night, ... The 1996 trial jury had voted 11-to-1 in recommendation that Smith be sentenced to life in prison, ...

Alabama hitman Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, ... Smith appealed his conviction and was given a second trial in 1996, after which he was also sentenced to death.

On Wednesday, Governor Kay Ivey, the first female Republican to hold the office in that state, announced the execution of 58-year-old Kenneth Eugene Smith, will be carried out sometime between Jan ...

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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a petition for a stay of execution from Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, a day before Smith is set to die by lethal injection in the 1988 ...

ATMORE, Ala. — Alabama carried out the world’s first known execution by nitrogen hypoxia Thursday. The unprecedented method was administered to Kenneth Eugene Smith, a prisoner on death row ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith, sentenced for murder on Nov. 14, 1989. The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday night denied the application for a stay of the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, scheduled for ...

ATMORE, Ala. (WHNT) — News 19’s Lauren Layton was one of only five media witnesses present during the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday.

Kenneth Eugene Smith was put to death last week in a nitrogen gas execution that horrified the world. Thirty other inmates in the same state are awaiting capital punishment because of a now ...

The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday night denied the application for a stay of the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, scheduled for Thursday evening.Smith, 57, was sentenced to death for the 1988 ...