Kenneth Eugene Smith, convicted for a murder-for-hire committed in 1988, and scheduled to be executed in the U.S. state of Alabama by asphyxiation using pure nitrogen, poses for an undated booking ...
ATMORE, Ala. — The Alabama Department of Corrections executed Kenneth Smith late yesterday evening by nitrogen hypoxia, the first time in U.S. history that a state has used nitrogen gas to execute a ...
As lethal injection drugs have become harder to come by, there have been far fewer executions across the country according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Stephen Bright, the former president ...