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Alabama inmate asks judge to block first nitrogen gas execution

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

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Alabama sets date for first death row execution using nitrogen gas

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

The Independent UK

Alabama sets January execution date using nitrogen gas

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

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Alabama court says state can execute inmate with nitrogen gas

A divided Alabama Supreme Court has said that Alabama can execute an inmate with nitrogen gas, a method that has not previously been used carry out a death sentence

The Independent UK

Alabama inmate opposes being 'test subject' for new nitrogen execution method

Attorneys for an inmate are asking the Alabama Supreme Court to reject the state's request to set an execution date for him using the new execution method of nitrogen hypoxia

The Independent UK

Alabama Set To Try New, Untested Execution Method

The state has filed a motion to set an execution date for Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived a previous execution attempt.

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Alabama requests a date to execute an inmate via nitrogen hypoxia for the first time

Smith was supposed to be executed in November 2022 by lethal injection, but corrections officers failed to insert an IV properly. The U.S. Supreme Court has authorized nitrogen hypoxia in his case.

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Alabama wants to be the 1st state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe only nitrogen

Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen

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Alabama to carry out first lethal injection after review of execution procedures

Alabama plans to execute an inmate for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state seeks to carry out its first lethal injection after a pause following a string of problems with inserting the IVs

The Independent UK

Alabama Isn't Ready To Kill Inmates By Nitrogen Hypoxia. It Wants To Try Anyway.

James Barber is set to be killed next month, the first execution after a string of botched lethal injection executions in the state.

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Alabama Botched His Execution. Now He Wants To Die Differently.

On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with an Alabama death-row inmate who, after surviving a botched lethal injection attempt last year, says he wants to die by gas chamber instead.

Reason

Death row prisoner’s execution by lethal injection blocked by Supreme Court

Kenneth Eugene Smith argued lethal injection was ‘cruel and unusual punishment’

The Independent UK

South Carolina legislature passes ‘barbaric’ law shielding identity of lethal injection drugmakers

The fate of the bills will impact the larger ways capital punishment is administered in the state

The Independent UK

Two officials fired after damming report says state failed to test execution drugs

An independent report uncovered major errors in Tennessee's lethal injection protocols as multiple executions were carried out without testing the drugs used in the death penalty process

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Death row killer spared lethal injection after he's poked with needles for hour

Alan Eugene Miller was due to be executed on September 22 but his death was scrapped after prison staff were unable to connect an IV line as he pleaded with a judge to change his execution method

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Alabama 'execution survivor' reaches settlement with state

Alabama won't seek another lethal injection date for an inmate whose September execution was halted when the state tried unsuccessfully for more than an hour to connect an IV line

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Attorneys: 'Botched' execution caused pain and torture

Attorneys say an Alabama inmate was "subjected to ever-escalating levels of pain and torture” during an aborted execution

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Alabama death row inmate describes state’s botched execution attempt

Kenneth Eugene Smith set to be put to death with nitrogen gas but spoke out angrily in December when his killing by lethal injection was abandoned after prison personnel struggled to place an IV

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Alabama governor demands pause in executions after third failed lethal injection attempt

Alabama governor Kay Ivey has demanded a pause in executions and review of the state's capital punishment system after the failed attempt to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday

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Alabama failed to complete an execution by lethal injection for a third time

The uncompleted execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith was the state's second such instance of being unable to kill an inmate in the past two months and its third since 2018.

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Why are states having lethal injection problems?

A scheduled execution in Alabama was called off Thursday after prison officials couldn’t find a suitable vein to inject the lethal drugs into

Reason

Alabama Execution Called Off Because Officials Couldn't Insert Needle

For the second time in three months, the state struggles and fails to execute a death row inmate.

The Independent UK

Alabama fails to complete lethal injection for 3rd time

Alabama started and then stopped another lethal injection because prison workers were unable to establish the intravenous lines needed to administer a deadly dose

Daily Mirror

Hitman Kenneth Eugene Smith who killed preacher's wife dodges execution at 11th hour

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who killed preacher's wife Elizabeth Sennett for a $1,000 bounty saw the deadline for his execution pass after a failure to find a vein to inject the lethal dose

The Independent UK

Alabama execution set in murder-for-hire of preacher's wife

Alabama is preparing to execute a man convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife

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