Nitrogen hypoxia: Why Alabama's execution of Kenneth Smith stirs ethical controversy.
Alabama plans to use nitrogen hypoxia, an untried method, to execute death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday. Here's what that means.
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Alabama plans to use nitrogen hypoxia, an untried method, to execute death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday. Here's what that means.
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After more than two decades on death row, contract killer and Alabama native Kenneth Smith is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia on Jan. 25, the first execution if its kind.
On Jan. 25, convicted killer and Alabama native Kenneth Eugene Smith is set to become the first inmate in U.S. history to be executed by means of nitrogen hypoxia, a method that Smith's attorneys refer to as 'experimental' and one recently admonished by the United Nations.
The state says the new method will "cause unconsciousness within seconds, and cause death within minutes." The same inmate waited through a lethal injection in 2022 that was eventually postponed for mechanical difficulties.