Alabama Inmate Execution To Be First Death By Nitrogen Gas
This will be the first execution using nitrogen gas and only the second time in U.S. history that a state would attempt to execute an inmate twice after initially failing.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to halt the execution of Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Smith. Smith was sentenced to death for his role in the 1988 murder in which he was hired by Charles Sennett to kill his wife Elizabeth. Alabama recently aborted an effort to execute him by lethal injection after officials failed to set an intravenous line…