Alabama sets January execution date using nitrogen gas : vim

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.

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