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Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas. The move comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method.
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Witnesses, including five news reporters, watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to die in the 1988 murder-for hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett, convulsed on a gurney as Alabama carried out the nation's first execution using nitrogen gas.
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Lawyers for the first inmate scheduled to be put to death with nitrogen gas argued in Monday court filings that Alabama is seeking to make him the "test case" for an experimental execution method and asked a federal judge to the block the January execution.
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No plans are known yet for the use of nitrogen hypoxia in state executions. The Alabama Department of Corrections said it does not have a timetable to…
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Alabama is almost done building a system that will carry out death sentences with nitrogen gas. The Alabama Department of Corrections said the next step…
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An Alabama committee has passed a bill allowing death row inmates to be executed with nitrogen gas. The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the measure 6-3…