A death row inmate in Alabama, Kenneth Eugene Smith, was executed Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, a controversial and untested method that has prompted legal pushback and public scrutiny from ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith's Alabama execution set for Thursday Alabama is set to carry out the first execution in the United States to use nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, a controversial and untested ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alabama was set to carry out the first-ever execution by nitrogen hypoxia on death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday.

Gov. Jeff Landry on Tuesday signed into law new methods of execution that can be used in Louisiana for the state’s nearly 60 death row prisoners starting July 1. Electrocution is back in rotation ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio's Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort Tuesday that would bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, ending a yearslong unofficial death ...

Convulsing and gasping for air, Kenneth Smith appeared to struggle for several minutes before his death Thursda y in an Alabama execution chamber. The details of what appeared to be a drawn-out ...

Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas.Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled to be ...

On a cool spring morning in a northern forest, the ground feels soft underfoot. Mist hangs between the trunks, and the air smells of wet leaves and old humus; the slow alchemy that keeps a forest ...