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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...
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Jan 26, 2024 · Kenneth Eugene Smith, a 58-year-old convicted killer, has become the first person in the U.S. to be executed with nitrogen gas at a South Alabama prison.
Jan 23, 2024 · It was Nov. 17, 2022, and Kenneth Smith was lying on a gurney inside Alabama’s execution chamber, his arms and legs strapped down as he waited to be put to death. Mr. Smith, who had been on ...
Jan 23, 2024 · Kenneth Smith, 58, is scheduled to be executed Jan. 25, 2024, at a south Alabama prison by nitrogen gas, a method that has never been used to put a person to death. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Friday, Jan. 19, in Smith’s bid to stop the execution from going forward.
Jan 26, 2024 · The governor of the US state of Alabama Kay Ivey says prison officials have put to death Eugene Kenneth Smith, a convicted murderer, completing the first execution using asphyxiation by nitrogen gas.
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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Jan 26, 2024 · Alabama has executed convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas, the first time the method of capital punishment has been used globally. A witness told the BBC that Smith...