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A convicted murderer in the southern state of Alabama is expected on Thursday to become the first person executed in the United States using nitrogen gas, a method the UN

Kenneth E Smith was convicted of killing the wife of a pastor. He was convicted three years ago and has been on death row since.

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

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...

State of Alabama defends method of execution, claiming it is “perhaps the most humane method of execution ever devised.”

 WASHINGTON, Jan 26, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - The southern US state of Alabama on Thursday put to death a convicted murderer

The United Nations and European Union condemned the United States on Friday after the countrys first execution of an inmate using nitrogen asphyxiation, an untested method that has reignited a debate about capital punishment

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For as long as America has had the death penalty, there have been questions about how best to carry it out. The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith in Alabama on Thursday, the first American execution in which death was caused by suffocation with nitrogen gas, gave no indication of settling the legal, moral and technical questions that have long bedeviled states as they mete out the ultimate punishment.

Alabama is one of three states, along with Oklahoma and Mississippi, that have authorized the use of nitrogen gas to execute prisoners.