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Kenneth Smith on Thursday became the United States' first known inmate to have been executed through nitrogen hypoxia after his botched lethal injection execution in 2022.

Kenneth Eugene Smith said in a final statement: 'Tonight Alabama causes humanity to take a step backwards'

In killing Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia, the state would be using him as a "test subject," Smith's lawyers argue.

Convicted murderer expected to be put to death later this month in first execution of its kind

A federal judge says Alabama can carry out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas despite claims the method is cruel and untested

Concerns 'cruel' state execution method would result 'in a painful and humiliating death'

Kenneth Eugene Smith is scheduled to become the first death row inmate to be executed with nitrogen. His pastor says the untested procedure is a cruel violation of religious liberties, Bevan Hurley reports

Lawyers for the first inmate scheduled to be put to death using nitrogen gas said Monday that Alabama is seeking to make him the “test case” for an experimental execution method

Officials previously tried to put 58-year-old Kenneth Eugene Smith to death in 2022