Alabama execution: Kenneth Eugene Smith to die in first execution by nitrogen gas

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The Supreme Court will allow Alabama to kill Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas.

It's the nation’s first execution using nitrogen hypoxia and the first execution using a new method since 1982.

Smith’s lawyers have argued that the state is trying to make him the test subject for an untried execution method. The Alabama attorney general’s office said the execution method will render him unconscious within seconds and kill him within minutes

Smith is one of two men convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher’s wife. The other was executed in 2010.

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