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Alabama is set to execute Kenneth Smith today, 35 years after the 1988 murder of Elizabeth Sennett. His accomplice, John Forrest Parker was also executed in 2010
The US Supreme Court and a lower appeals court both declined to block Smith’s execution on Wednesday
The 2000 film adaptation of Stephen King's novel the Green Mile, which featured a horrifying electric chair execution scene, was loosely based on the real case of 14-year-old George Stinney.
A never before used execution method that critics call cruel and experimental will be used against Kenneth Eugene Smith.
The US Supreme Court has also declined to intervene in the case