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A federal appeals court says Alabama can carry out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to block the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia. Alabama says it plans to replace the 58-year-old’s breathing air with nitrogen gas Thursday, rendering him unconscious within seconds and killing him within minutes. Critics say the execution method violates a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Smith is expected to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. He is one of two men c...

Alabama will be allowed to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas, a U.S. federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, refusing to block what would be the nation's first execution by a new method since 1982.

It'll be the second time the state has tried to put Kenneth Eugene Smith to death. This time, the state is using an untested method.

A federal appeals court says Alabama can carry out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to block

Alabama will attempt to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas, a never before used execution method that the state claims will be humane but critics call cruel and experimental