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A man put to death using nitrogen gas shook and convulsed on the gurney as Alabama carried out the first-of-its-kind ...

A man who was paid $1,000 to kill an Alabama woman more than 30 years ago has been put to death with pure nitrogen gas, a first-of-its-kind execution that again placed the United States at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment. Kenneth Eugene Smith appeared to shake and convulse before being pronounced dead Thursday at an Alabama prison after breathing the gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation. The execution came after a last-minute legal battle in which Smith’s attorneys said the state was making him the test subject for an experimental execution method that ...

The execution took about 22 minutes between the opening and closing of the curtains to the viewing room.

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Who is Kenneth Smith and what crimes did he commit? How did he survive a lethal injection? And how does nitrogen gas kill? Find out the answers to those and more here.