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The state plans to execute McWhorter on Thursday. Here's what we know about the crime, the timeline and the process.

Alabama has set a January execution date for what would be the nation's first attempt to put an inmate to death using nitrogen gas. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday announced a Jan. 25 execution date for Kenneth Eugene Smith using the new method. Smith was one of two men convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett in northwestern Alabama.

Although it's authorized in two other states, the proposed nitrogen gas execution method has never been used to carry out a death sentence.

Lawyers for a Texas inmate on death row expected to die by lethal injection on Thursday say the sentence was based on wrong testimony by an expert.

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Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday announced she has set the timeframe for the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith to occur beginning 12:00 a.m. on Thursday, January

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A divided Alabama Supreme Court said the state can execute an inmate with nitrogen gas, a method that has not previously been used carry out a death sentence.

South Carolina's highest court apparently is not ready to allow the state to restart executions after more than 12 years until they hear more arguments about newly obtained lethal injection drugs as well as a recently added firing squad and the old electric chair. The state Supreme Court set a Feb. 6 date for a hearing over a lawsuit by four death row inmates out of appeals who initially argued dying by electrocution or bullets to the heart is cruel and unusual punishment.

Alabama Supreme Court said death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith can be executed with nitrogen gas - a method which involves the inhalation of pure nitrogen to starve the body of oxygen