Kenneth Smith on Thursday became the United States' first known inmate to have been executed through nitrogen hypoxia after his botched lethal injection execution in 2022.

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who killed preacher's wife Elizabeth Sennett for a $1,000 bounty saw the deadline for his execution pass after a failure to find a vein to inject the lethal dose ...

Smith was accused of being a hitman and was sentenced to death following his conviction in the 1989 murder of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett, a preacher's wife, in northwestern Alabama's Colbert County.

Convicted murderer and hitman Kenneth Smith, scheduled to die Thursday in the nation's first nitrogen hypoxia execution, wants the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to halt the procedure.

CRIME Alabama hitman's nitrogen gas execution Thursday sparks controversy: What to know Kenneth Eugene Smith, now 58, was convicted in murder-for-hire plot that killed Elizabeth Sennett so her ...

Homicide Hitman who killed minister’s wife objects to being new execution ‘guinea pig’ after failed lethal injection Kenneth Smith would be the first man executed via nitrogen hypoxia, but ...

Jan. 24 (UPI) --The state of Alabama can proceed with its planned execution of convicted hitman Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday.The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied Smith's writ of certiorari ...

During the trial for convicted hitman Kenneth Eugene Smith, a jury recommended 11-1 to sentence the man to life in prison without the possibility of parole — the standard penalty for first ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith is scheduled to be killed by suffocation of nitrogen gas sometime between 2 a.m. on Jan. 25, and 6 a.m. on Jan. 26.