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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.
MONTGOMERY, Alabama. -- Alabama will attempt to execute an inmate with nitrogen gas Thursday night, a never-before-used execution method that the state says
The US Supreme Court has chosen not to intervene in Alabama's plans to carry out the death penalty using nitrogen gas.
Kenneth Smith is set to be executed by the state of Alabama using a controversial method of nitrogen gas, which has never been used before, after his lawyers failed to stop the "cruel" death sentence
Alabama prisoner Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, is due for execution by nitrogen gas today after 35 years on death row at Holman Correctional Facility.