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1. www.bbc.com › news › world-us-canada-68097008Why has Alabama executed a man using nitrogen gas? - BBC

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   Jan 26, 2024 · Kenneth Eugene Smith was originally scheduled to be put to death with lethal drugs in November 2022. Prison staff inserted one intravenous line, but two lines were required to administer the...

2. apnews.com › article › nitrogen-execution-deathAlabama executes a man with nitrogen gas for the first time ...

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   Jan 26, 2024 · Alabama will be allowed to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, refusing to block what would be the nation’s first execution by a new method since 1982.

3. www.itv.com › news › 2024/01/24US executes first death row inmate with nitrogen gas

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   Jan 26, 2024 · A man who was paid $1,000 (£788) to kill an Alabama woman more than 30 years ago was executed with pure nitrogen gas - the first execution of its kind in the world. Convicted murderer Kenneth ...

4. edition.cnn.com › 2024/01/25 › usAlabama puts to death Kenneth Smith in first known execution ...

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   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 that...

5. apnews.com › article › alabama-nitrogen-executionAlabama calls nitrogen execution method painless and humane ...

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   Jan 23, 2024 · Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived Alabama’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday. If carried out, it would the first new method of execution since lethal injection was introduced in 1982.

6. edition.cnn.com › 2024/01/26 › usAlabama carries out first known execution with nitrogen gas ...

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   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 ...

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   Could nitrogen gas kill a death row inmate?

   • The US Supreme Court has again denied a last-minute appeal by attorneys for Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Smith, who is scheduled to be put to death Thursday by nitrogen gas – a wholly new method some experts have said is veiled in secrecy and could lead to excessive pain or even torture.

   Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith executed with nitrogen gas, marking the

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   Why did Alabama not execute a death row inmate?

   • The process, however, is not always straightforward. Several months prior to Smith's previous botched execution, Alabama authorities failed to put to death another death row inmate, Alan Miller, also because of difficulties inserting an IV needle. Several other lethal injection executions have also not gone according to plan.

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   What happened at the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore?

   • As the procedure started Thursday evening at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Smith was fitted with a mask, a device that would be used to administer the nitrogen. The execution process began at 7:53 p.m. CT, and Smith was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m., according to Alabama Department of Corrections officials.

   Alabama carries out first known execution with nitrogen gas in the US

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   Who are former death row inmates who were exonerated?

   • Former death row inmates who were exonerated, from left, Randall Padgent, Gary Drinkard and Ron Wright, were among the nearly one hundred protestors gathered at the state capitol building in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday Jan. 23, 2024, to ask Governor Kay Ivey to stop the planned execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith.

   Alabama executes a man with nitrogen gas for the first time | AP News

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   Did anti-death penalty activists put signs at Holman Correctional Facility?

   • Anti-death penalty activists placed signs along the road heading to Holman Correctional Facility ahead of the scheduled nitrogen gas execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith. (Jan. 25) (AP Video: Stephen Smith/Kim Chandler)

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   How long did nitrogen flow during a prison execution?

   • Nitrogen flowed for about 15 minutes during the procedure, state corrections commissioner John Hamm said in a news conference. Smith, who was on a gurney, appeared conscious for “several minutes into the execution,” and “shook and writhed” for about two minutes after that, media witnesses said in a joint report.

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8. english.elpais.com › usa › 2024/01/26Alabama uses experimental nitrogen gas method to kill death ...

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   Jan 26, 2024 · Alabama uses experimental nitrogen gas method to kill death row inmate it already tried to execute in 2022. Kenneth Eugene Smith was found guilty of murdering a woman in the 1980s and had...