[UPDATE] Alabama Carries Out First Nitrogen Execution of Convicted Individual
Alabama carried out its first nitrogen execution after handing out the new form of capital punishment on convicted murderer Kenneth Smith.
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Alabama carried out its first nitrogen execution after handing out the new form of capital punishment on convicted murderer Kenneth Smith.
An Alabama death row inmate has been put to death by nitrogen gas in the first known execution of its kind.
The execution comes a day after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an effort by the convict Kenneth Eugene Smith to delay it and review his case.
The US Supreme Court has chosen not to intervene in Alabama's plans to carry out the death penalty using nitrogen gas.
On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court declined to halt the execution of Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Smith, thereby paving the way for a wholly new method of execution using nitrogen gas.