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Kenneth Eugene Smith will become first death row prisoner to die via untested method

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

A federal judge who is weighing whether to allow the nation’s first execution by nitrogen hypoxia to go forward next month has urged Alabama to change procedures so the inmate can pray and say final words before the gas mask is placed on his face

A federal judge has heard diverging arrguments over a request to block what would be the nation's first execution by nitrogen gas

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

Alabama plans to execute a prisoner using nitrogen gas. NPR obtained a Department of Corrections document showing the method may pose risks to others in the room and impede religious liberties.

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

Alabama has set a January execution date for what could be the nation’s first death sentence carried out by nitrogen gas