Inmate to Be First in America Executed by Nitrogen Gas-Retains Nexus
MONTGOMERY, Alabama – Kenneth Smith, a death row prisoner in Alabama, is set to become the first inmate in America to be executed with nitrogen gas after the US Supreme Court declined to halt his execution. Smith was convicted of the 1988 killing of Elizabeth Sennett, who was stabbed repeatedly and beaten with a blunt object. The murder scheme was orchestrated by her husband Charles, a Christian minister who had taken out a large life …