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The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith (July 4, 1965 – January 25, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by nitrogen hypoxia. It was the first execution in the world to use this particular method. [2] Smith was convicted of the March 18, 1988 contract killing of Elizabeth Sennett in Colbert County, Alabama. Charles Sennett Sr ...
Alabama has executed two other inmates using the method — Kenneth Eugene Smith and Alan Eugene Miller. The Holman Correctional Facility is where most of Alabama’s death row inmates are housed ...
Attorney General Steve Marshall said that after Thursday night, ‘nitrogen hypoxia as a means of execution is no longer an untested method. It is a proven one’
Kenneth Smith was sentenced to death by judicial override, a practice abolished in 2017. He was convicted in the murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Sennett.
Kenneth Eugene Smith, a 58-year-old convicted killer, was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. Thursday at an Alabama prison after breathing the gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation.
After the murder of Wilkerson, the trio, now joined by their fourth member Smith, went to hunt for more victims, and they took the life of 18-year-old Danita Gullette on that same day they killed Wilkerson.
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The US Supreme Court has again denied a last-minute appeal by attorneys for Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Smith, ... in a 1988 murder for hire, had survived the state’s initial attempt to ...