Alabama plans to put death row prisoner Kenneth Smith to death today using an untested and very controversial execution method that has erupted a wave of harrowing warnings from experts and human rights advocates
Alabama Supreme Court has greenlighted Kenneth Smith's execution with 'nitrogen hypoxia', a cruel, previously untried method that could see him suffocating on his own vomit, suffering a 'drawn out and agonising death'
Alabama Supreme Court said death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith can be executed with nitrogen gas - a method which involves the inhalation of pure nitrogen to starve the body of oxygen