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Alabama plans to put an industrial-grade respirator mask over Mr. Smith’s face and replace his breathing air with pure nitrogen gas, causing him to die from lack of oxygen. He will not be rendered unconscious before the procedure begins.
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images(ATMORE, Ala.) An Alabama man has become the first ever person executed via a new method, nitrogen gas, on Thursday.
Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for his alleged role in the 1988 murder of Elizabeth Sennett. Her husband, Charles Sennett, allegedly hired someone who, in turn, hired two men, including Smith to kill his wife and make it look like a burglary gone wrong.
Smith was to be executed in November 2022 via lethal injection, but, despite multiple attempts, officials were not able to insert an intravenous line to administer the drugs before the death warrant expired.
However, medical and legal experts told ABC News that nitrogen gas as a method for execution is untested and there s no evidence the method will be any more humane or painless than lethal injection.
"I ve never heard anyone say, We ve got this new method of execution. We ve looked at it carefully. We know that this method of execution will cause a death that