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Kenneth Smith is scheduled to be executed today in Alabama despite horrific warnings raised about the efficiency of a never-before-used method to put him to death

Kenneth Smith has become the first-ever inmate to be killed by nitrogen gas after Alabama state officials used a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen

Smith was said to have consumed his final meal at 10am on Thursday morning, before being denied any further solid food before his death and only clear liquids

Kenneth Smith uttered his final words before he was executed by a never-before-used method, with administration of nitrogen gas through a mask

Kenneth Smith has become the first-ever inmate to be killed by nitrogen gas after Alabama state officials used a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen

Kenneth Eugene Smith will become the first-ever American to be executed by toxic nitrogen gas in Alabama - but Rev Dr Jeff Hood fears he will die too as he sits by his side as his spiritual advisor

Alabama plans to put death row prisoner Kenneth Smith to death today using an untested and very controversial execution method that has erupted a wave of harrowing warnings from experts and human rights advocates

Kenneth Smith is set to be executed by the state of Alabama using a controversial method of nitrogen gas, which has never been used before, after his lawyers failed to stop the "cruel" death sentence

Alabama is set to execute Kenneth Smith today, 35 years after the 1988 murder of Elizabeth Sennett. His accomplice, John Forrest Parker was also executed in 2010

Kenneth Smith, 58, is due to be the first-ever prisoner to be killed by nitrogen hypoxia which will see him suffocate and cause him to fall unconscious quickly and die from a lack of oxygen

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, is scheduled for execution in a 30-hour window starting just after midnight on Thursday, January 25, for his part in a murder-for-hire plot of a pastor's wife

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was sentenced to death for his part in the 1988 murder for hire of Elizabeth Sennet, is set to be executed again after surviving a four-hour ordeal in 2022

Kenneth Smith and another man were each paid $1,000 to kill Elizabeth Sennett in 1988 by her husband Reverend Charles Sennett, who was in deep debt and wanted to collect on insurance

For more than 2,000 people their Christmas will be spent behind bars awaiting death, but what is Christmas like on death row? Inmates past and present have shared their experiences

Chad Daybell will soon face trial for the murder of his two step-children after their mother was sentenced to life in prison for the same killings in July. Despite efforts, he may now face the death penalty

The killer, Robert Alton Harris, was executed in 1992 after spending 13 years on Death Row, and the last words he uttered before he died were chilling — a grim poem he concocted

The Wren Collective's report on Harris County, Texas, reveals systemic flaws in the death penalty cases, citing inadequate defence representation and structural issues in the indigent defence system

Christina Marie Riggs was executed in Arkansas for the murder of her children who the nurse injected with potassium chloride before smothering them and then attempting to take her own life

Phillip Dean Hancock, the death row inmate who claims to have killed two men out of self-defence was executed in Oklahoma Thursday - he said he hopes to be exonerated after his death

Phillip Hancock was executed at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary for the 2001 double murders of Robert Jett Jr and James Lynch who he claimed he shot in self defence after they forced him inside a cage

Phillip Hancock is set to be executed this morning after spending decades protesting his innocence after a 2001 double murder. Hancock claims he was set on by two attackers when the killings took place

The iconic line 'Just Do It' is familiar to millions across the globe but one advertising executive's search for the perfect catchphrase led to an unexpected grisly inspiration

Clarence Ray Allen was serving a life sentence when he ordered the deaths of others while behind bars, leading him to be convicted of three counts of murder and sentenced to death

Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed by lethal injection in 1984 and the first woman to be executed after the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 for her crimes

The British grandmother caught flying into Bali from Bangkok with 10.16lb of cocaine worth £1.6 million in 2012 has spent 10 years on Death Row in grim Kerobokan prison