With Kenneth Smith’s execution, Alabama has earned the macabre distinction of being the first US state, and likely the first government entity internationally, to utilize nitrogen asphyxiation to deliberately kill a human being.
Kenneth Smith, who is scheduled to be executed Thursday by nitrogen hypoxia method in Alabama's William C. Holman correctional facility, was denied a last meal. The 58-year-old is being put to death for his role in a 1988 murder for hire. He survived the state's attempt at execution by lethal injection in 2022. , World News, Times Now
The US Supreme Court has turned down an appeal to halt the imminent execution of an American prisoner by a new and untested method - suffocation by nitrogen gas.