Reverend Jeff Hood, who was the spiritual advisor to Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, the first man in the US to be executed with nitrogen gas, said prison staff on Thursday were unable to mask their shock. He described the event as a ‘horror show’.
Even as the total number of executions remained among the lowest in a generation, several high-profile failures forced states including Alabama and Tennessee to temporarily halt executions.
The US Supreme Court Wednesday denied an Alabama man s petition for a stay of execution. In 1996, a jury voted 11 to 1 to sentence Kenneth E. Smith life in prison without the possibility of parole. A.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred Friday evening at an apartment complex in Harper, Kansas.