Alabama Execution News Today

With Kenneth Smith’s execution, Alabama has earned the macabre distinction of being the first US state, and likely the first government entity internationally, to utilize nitrogen asphyxiation to deliberately kill a human being.

The southern US state of Alabama on Thursday put to death a convicted murderer using nitrogen gas, the first time the controversial method decried by human rights advocates has been used in the country.

Alabama man Kenneth Smith shook violently on the gurney during a nitrogen hypoxia gas execution, sparking debate over the death penalty.

Officials said Kenneth Eugene Smith was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. at an Alabama prison after breathing pure nitrogen gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation.

Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S.

The U.S. state of Alabama carried out Thursday the country's first execution using pure nitrogen gas. The southern state put to death a convicted...

Kenneth Eugene Smith is accused of the murder-for-hire-killing of Elizabeth Dorelene Sennett in Colbert County in 1988

An Alabama prisoner set to be executed on Thursday using a novel method that a U.S. based advocacy organization says has a Canadian link.

Experts from the UN have called on the US to halt the execution of Kenneth Smith in Arizona by nitrogen gas.

Attorneys for the spiritual adviser of a soon-to-be executed inmate filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that the restrictions placed upon the adviser due to the method of execution are "hostile to religion."