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US state carries out first nitrogen gas execution

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death for a…
Alabama death row inmate’s last meal revealed before being third execution by nitrogen

Alabama death row inmate’s last meal revealed before being third execution by nitrogen

An Alabama death row inmate was executed Thursday evening by nitrogen gas,…

Alabama carries out nitrogen gas execution on a man for a hitchhiker's killing

An Alabama man convicted in the 1994 killing of a hitchhiker cursed…
How the world executes its worst criminals: Methods of capital punishment used around the world from public beheading and stoning to nitrogen gas and Chinese death vans

How the world executes its worst criminals: Methods of capital punishment used around the world from public beheading and stoning to nitrogen gas and Chinese death vans

The dramatic uptick of capital punishment in recent years, and the brutality…
Kenneth Eugene Smith was sentenced to death in 1996 after admitting the murder-for-hire killing of a pastor's wife who was beaten and stabbed in 1988. On Thursday evening, he became the first person in US history to be executed with nitrogen gas

Alabama Attorney General vows to use nitrogen gas executions AGAIN as he doubles down on ‘textbook’ controversial death with 43 Alabama death row inmates set to die just like Kenneth Eugene Smith

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has vowed to continue using the controversial…
Alabama Supreme Court Denies Death Row Inmate’s Appeal of Nitrogen Hypoxia Execution

Determined Son of Kenneth Smith’s Victim, Elizabeth Sennett: My Mom ‘Got Her Justice’ After 1st U.S. Execution by Nitrogen Gas

Kenneth Eugene Smith convulsed for four minutes Thursday night as the state…
‘The world is watching’: Sotomayor gives fiery rebuke after justices refuse to intervene in 1st nitrogen gas execution

‘The world is watching’: Sotomayor gives fiery rebuke after justices refuse to intervene in 1st nitrogen gas execution

Left: Right: This undated photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections shows…
Minute by gruesome minute: From his last words to the final horrifying spasm on his gurney, how America's first nitrogen gas execution saw killer Kenneth Smith thrash around while his wife wept during grisly 22-minute death in Alabama prison

Minute by gruesome minute: From his last words to the final horrifying spasm on his gurney, how America's first nitrogen gas execution saw killer Kenneth Smith thrash around while his wife wept during grisly 22-minute death in Alabama prison

A murderer was put to death in Alabama overnight with a previously…
Kenneth Eugene Smith was sentenced to death in 1996 after admitting the murder-for-hire killing of a pastor's wife who was beaten and stabbed in 1988. On Thursday evening, he became the first person in US history to be executed with nitrogen gas

Historic first nitrogen gas execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith took 22 MINUTES and murderer ‘writhed and shook’ for two minutes while ‘pulling against the restraints’: Last words declared method ‘a step back for humanity’

Kenneth Eugene Smith has become the first person in history to be executed…
Alabama executes Kenneth Eugene Smith, first inmate put to death with nitrogen gas

Alabama executes Kenneth Eugene Smith, first inmate put to death with nitrogen gas

An Alabama death row inmate was executed on Thursday night, becoming the…