Kenneth Eugene Smith was found guilty of murdering a woman in the 1980s and had survived another attempt at execution by lethal injection in which the vein could not be found
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Alabama will be allowed to put Kenneth Eugene Smith to death with nitrogen gas, a federal court ruled. The ruling refuses to block what would be the first execution by new method since 1982.