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It marked the first time a new execution method was used in the US since 1982

Darrin Klimek/Getty Images(ATMORE, Ala.) -- An Alabama man has become the first ever person executed via a new method, nitrogen gas, on Thursday. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for his alleged role in the 1988 murder of Elizabeth Sennett. Her husband, Charles Sennett, allegedly hired someone -- who, in turn, hired two men, including Smith -- to kill his wife and make it look like a burglary gone wrong. Smith was to be executed in November 2022 via lethal injection, but, despite multiple attempts, officials were not able to insert an intravenous line to administer the drugs be...

Darrin Klimek/Getty Images(ATMORE, Ala.) -- An Alabama man has become the first ever person executed via a new method, nitrogen gas, on Thursday. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for his alleged role in the 1988 murder of Elizabeth Sennett. Her husband, Charles Sennett, allegedly hired someone -- who, in turn, hired two men, including Smith -- to kill his wife and make it look like a burglary gone wrong. Smith was to be executed in November 2022 via lethal injection, but, despite multiple attempts, officials were not able to insert an intravenous line to administer the drugs be...

The European Union and the U.N. Human Rights Office have expressed regret over the first execution of a man with nitrogen gas in the U.S. state of Alabama.

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