US EditionAlabama inmate Kenneth Smith put to death in first U.S. nitrogen gas execution
- Alabama executed a man using nitrogen gas, making it the first state in the United States to do so.
- The condemned man, who had been on death row for almost four decades, had previously appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the execution.
- Despite concerns raised by death penalty opponents, state leaders deemed the execution long overdue justice.
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Alabama gasses prisoner with nitrogen in first new execution method in decades
ALABAMA, United States – Alabama on Thursday, January 25 executed convicted murderer Kenneth Smith, who held his breath in vain as officials asphyxiated him with nitrogen gas, the first use of a new method of capital punishment since lethal injections began in the United States four decades ago. Smith, convicted of a 1988 murder-for-hire, was a rare prisoner who had already survived one execution attempt. In November 2022, Alabama officials abor…
Alabama carries out nation’s first execution with nitrogen gas
Nitrogen gas was used as capital punishment for the first time in U.S. history in the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, an Alabama prisoner convicted of a murder-for-hire scheme in 1988 who survived a botched execution attempt in 2022. This despite concerns voiced by several human rights groups and the U.N. that it could amount to torture. NPR's Chiara Eisner joins Geoff Bennett to discuss.
Alabama will help bring nitrogen asphyxiation executions to other states
Alabama will help bring nitrogen asphyxiation executions to other states Alabama offered assistance on Friday to other U.S. states seeking to carry out executions using asphyxiation by nitrogen gas, a few hours after pioneering the new method to kill Kenneth Smith, a prisoner condemned for a 1988 murder. The state also promised more to come in Alabama: Attorney General Steve Marshall said 43 other people on death row had chosen asphyxiation ove…
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Kenneth Eugene Smith, the first person executed in the United States using pure nitrogen, was tortured before his death. Alabama Local News (ALN) revealed the details of the execution. The man, tied with belts, was brought to the execution room on a gurney, after which a breathing mask was put on his face. Two minutes after the US Attorney General ordered the execution to begin, gas began flowing into the mask. According to reporters, Smith bega…
Alabama executes a man with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been used
Alabama has executed a man with nitrogen gas, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment.
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