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Date. March 18, 1988. Imprisoned at. Holman Correctional Facility [ 1] The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith (July 4, 1965 – January 25, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama by means of nitrogen hypoxia. It was the first execution in the world to use this particular method. [ 2] Smith was convicted of the March 18, 1988, murder-for ...
Alan Eugene Smith, the second death row inmate set to die by nitrogen hypoxia in Alabama this year, on Sept. 26, said in his own appeal to the state earlier in the summer that he did not ...
Alabama on Thursday night executed Kenneth Smith, the first death row inmate known to die by nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of execution in the United States that ...
Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith put to death in first U.S. nitrogen gas execution Abigail Brooks and Erik Ortiz and Dasha Burns and Lawrence Hurley Updated January 25, 2024 at 10:22 PM
The first time Alabama attempted to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith in November 2022, the death row prisoner was punctured with intravenous needles repeatedly for nearly four hours.
Kenneth Eugene Smith (born July 4, 1965) is an American man convicted of the March 18, 1988 murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Sennett in Colbert County, Alabama. Charles Sennett Sr., Elizabeth's husband, recruited Billy Gray Williams to murder his wife.
However, two of them, Kenneth Loggins and Trace Duncan, were 17 at the time of the offense. Their death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment in 2006, after Alabama agreed to change the law and prohibit the execution of minors younger than 18 at the time of their offenses, leaving the final member, Carey Dale Grayson, to remain on death row.
The Supreme Court rejected an Alabama death row inmate’s last-minute request for a stay of execution over the proposed ... Kenneth Eugene Smith was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of ...