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Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen needed to stay alive, on Thursday in the nation's first execution attempt with the method.
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Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state's previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday by nitrogen hypoxia. If carried out, it would the first new method of execution since lethal injection was introduced in 1982.
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Attorneys for the first inmate slated to be put to death with nitrogen gas have asked a federal appeals court to block the execution scheduled later this month in Alabama. Kenneth Eugene Smith's attorneys on Monday asked the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block his January 25th execution. The appellate court will hear arguments in the case on Friday.
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The Alabama Supreme Court rejected the appeal of a death row inmate who is scheduled to be the first person put to death with nitrogen gas and had argued that he shouldn't face execution after a previous attempt at a lethal injection failed.
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A Nebraska lawmaker has introduced a bill to add asphyxiation by nitrogen to the state's method of carrying out the death penalty, even as Alabama officials await a judge's ruling on a request to block its plans to become the nation's first state to carry out an execution by nitrogen gas.
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An Alabama inmate scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection for the shooting death of his friend's father urged young people to take a pause before making life-altering mistakes.
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A divided Alabama Supreme Court said the state can execute an inmate with nitrogen gas, a method that has not previously been used carry out a death sentence.
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Alabama's governor has scheduled a November execution date for an inmate convicted of shooting and killing a man during a 1993 robbery.
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Alabama executed a man on Friday for the 2001 beating death of a woman as the state resumed lethal injections after failed executions prompted the governor to order an internal review of procedures.
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A federal appeals court refused to stop an upcoming execution in Alabama, rejecting an inmate's argument that the state has a history of botched lethal injections. James Barber is scheduled to be put to death tonight at a south Alabama prison, in the first execution scheduled in the state since Gov. Kay Ivey paused them in November for an internal review.