"Alabama's New Execution Method: The Emergence of Nitrogen Gas"
TL;DR
Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama, marking the first time this method was used in U.S. capital punishment. Smith, convicted in the stabbing murder of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett in 1988, was pronounced dead after the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal to stay the execution. Sennett's husband had recruited Smith and another man to carry out the killing in order to collect on an insurance policy.
- What to Know About the Execution of Kenneth Smith in Alabama The New York Times
- Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith executed with nitrogen gas, marking the emergence of a wholly new method of capital punishment CNN
- States can't figure out how to execute inmates | The Excerpt USA TODAY
- Mengele-like logic underpins Alabama's plan to gas a man to death Montgomery Advertiser
- Letters to the Editor: Could Alabama export its new execution method? Los Angeles Times
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