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Jan 26, 2024 · A death row inmate has been executed using a novel method. Why have authorities in Alabama used nitrogen gas, and why is it controversial? Kenneth Eugene Smith was originally scheduled to...
The condemned inmates live in single cells, with limited access to fresh air or mental enrichment. These photos reveal just what it looks like to spend your days trapped in an outdated facility, within a broken system, where your only options are to wait and wonder.
Jan 26, 2024 · Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith was put to death Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, marking the nation’s first known execution using that method. Now Alabama’s attorney general wants to help ...
Jan 26, 2024 · A death row inmate has been executed using a novel method. Why have authorities in Alabama used nitrogen gas, and why is it controversial? Kenneth Eugene Smith was originally scheduled to...
Jan 25, 2024 · 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...
As of July 1, 2024, there were 2,213 death row inmates in the United States, including 48 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
Aug 16, 2020 · To prompt a deeper understanding of the death-penalty system in the US, photographer Jackie Black recreated the last meals requested by prisoners on death row before they were executed.