Alabama executes death|row prisoner with nitrogen gas

Alabama prison officials plan to escort Kenneth Eugene Smith from his cell, strap a mask to his face and replace his breathing air with nitrogen gas.

Alabama in January became the first state to execute a prisoner using nitrogen; eyewitnesses reported the inmate, Kenneth Smith, 58, remained ...

Alabama inmate to be first prisoner executed with nitrogen gas ... Alabama is one of three states, along with Oklahoma and Mississippi, that have ...

Governor Kay Ivey, a Republican, confirmed that the state had executed the inmate with an experimental method: nitrogen asphyxiation. Smith, who ...

Holman Correctional Facility, the maximum security prison that houses Alabama's death row and execution chamber. (Photo by Lauren Gill).

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US federal judge allows Alabama to execute prisoner by nitrogen gas ... Smith has been on death row since he was convicted of murder in 1988.

'The world is watching.' Alabama executes inmate using nitrogen gas. An inmate at a maximum security prison ...

Smith was given his last meal and last words, strapped to a gurney for over an hour and tortured as prison staff jabbed him with needles, ...

Smith became first inmate in history to be executed with nitrogen gas.

... prisoners to death. Alan Eugene Miller, 59, is scheduled to be executed with nitrogen gas at a south Alabama prison. Miller was convicted of ...

A prisoner in Alabama is set to become the first inmate in America to be put to death with nitrogen after the US Supreme Court declined to halt ...

Alabama can execute inmate with nitrogen gas, state's highest court says ... Advocacy groups and lawyers representing death row inmates on ...

Smith to life in prison for his role in a 1988 killing, the sentencing judge overrode the jury's decision and imposed the death penalty anyway.

Last night, Alabama executed death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith ... He was pronounced dead at 8:25—about 15 minutes after prison officials ...

The Alabama Supreme Court voted and approved moving forward with an inmate's execution using nitrogen gas. The inmate, Kenneth Eugene Smith, ...

This undated photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire ...

Alabama has set a January execution date for what would be the nation's first attempt to put an inmate to death using nitrogen gas.

An Alabama death row inmate has sued to stop his pending execution by nitrogen gas, arguing it violates his constitutional rights.

Alabama just became the first state to try nitrogen gas for the execution of a death row inmate. The Supreme Court declined to intervene ...