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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 ...
The Supreme Court rejected an Alabama death row inmate’s last-minute request for a stay of execution over the proposed use of an untested method: lethal gas. ... Kenneth Eugene Smith was ...
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’
In asking the Supreme Court on Thursday to deny Smith’s request to stay the execution, the state attorney general’s office said it believes “the new method will be swift, painless, and ...
Findings from an autopsy that the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences conducted on Kenneth Smith's body after the execution were included in the Tuesday night filing by Grayson's attorneys ...
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Smith's execution when at about 10:20 p.m. it lifted a stay issued earlier in the evening by the 11th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals.
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 ...
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 ...