Alabama executed convicted murderer Kenneth Smith by asphyxiating him with nitrogen gas on Thursday, the first use of a new method of capital punishment that the state is advancing as a simpler alternative to lethal injections. The state has called its new protocol "the most painless and humane method of…
Kenneth Eugene Smith, who became the first US prisoner to be executed by nitrogen gas on Thursday night, told his family he loved them before he was killed.
The first man to be put to death by nitrogen gas writhed and gasped for air for almost ten minutes before he died in a ‘horror’ protracted death that lasted a total of 22 minutes, witnesses have revealed.
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