Kenneth Smith is poised to become the first to be put to death using nitrogen hypoxia, which forces a prisoner to breathe only nitrogen.
The state of Alabama seeks to put Kenneth Eugene Smith to death using a new nitrogen gas execution method
Kenneth Eugene Smith is poised to be put to death using nitrogen hypoxia, which deprives an individual of oxygen and makes them breathe only nitrogen. ‘The state seeks to make Mr Smith the test subject for the first ever attempted execution by an untested and only recently released protocol for executing condemned people by the novel method of nitrogen hypoxia,’ Smith’s attorneys wrote in a court filing on Friday.They called the method ‘untested’ and said that Alabama has not released much information on how they would work.
Three states have approved nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method, but it has never before been used to put an inmate to death in the US.Smith was convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire killing of Elizabeth Sennett by her husband, who sought to collect on her life insurance to pay off his debt. He was one of two men paid $1,000 each to slay Sennett, according to prosecutors.
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