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Alabama inmate to be executed by nitrogen gas in January 2024, will mark first use of method
- Alabama has set a January execution date for Kenneth Smith, making it the first state to attempt an execution using nitrogen gas.
- Smith was convicted for his involvement in a murder-for-hire plot in 1988, hired by the victim's husband.
- Proponents argue that the use of nitrogen gas would be painless, while opponents view it as human experimentation and torture.
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Alabama set to become first state to execute inmate with nitrogen gas after lethal injection attempt goes awry
Alabama is set to become the first state in the nation to execute an inmate using nitrogen gas after lethal injection could not be administered to the inmate last year.Way back in 1988, Kenneth Eugene Smith, now 58, was hired alongside John Forest Parker to murder Elizabeth Sennett, the wife of a northern Alabama preacher, and make her death look like a robbery gone wrong. The woman's husband, Charles Sennett Sr., had been having an affair and w…
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