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Fending off doubts and criticisms, Alabama’s attorney general hailed a new execution method as “humane and effective.”

In Alabama, Kenneth Smith was executed by nitrogen hypoxia at 8:25 p.m. on Thursday.

An Alabama death row inmate has been put to death by nitrogen gas in the first known execution of its kind.

Warning: Graphic content Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas today, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again...

An appeal questioned Alabama's readiness to employ the untried execution method

The urine-diversion pilot project that the town and its partners have been planning has hit some roadblocks: how to finance the project and where to put the urine.

The state had previously attempted to execute Smith, who was convicted of a 1988 murder-for-hire, in 2022, but the lethal injection was called off at the last minute because authorities couldn’t connect an IV line.

When a high concentration of nitrogen is inhaled, it replaces the oxygen in the body and disables the respiratory system, causing death

"The world is watching," Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned before Kenny Smith was put to death Thursday

US News: Kenneth Eugene Smith died from a nitrogen execution, experiencing hypoxia due to breathing pure nitrogen. The effects of pure nitrogen on humans are u