# nitrogen gas death penalty

The Alabama Execution Case: What We Know » Kenneth Eugene Smith was put to death by nitrogen gas on Thursday night, the first time the method was used in capital punishment in the U.S. Nytimes.com

It's not fit for putting down animals, but Alabama plans to use nitrogen hypoxia on death row inmate | CBC News » Some medical experts are accusing Alabama of using an experimental procedure to carry out a death sentence later this week for a 58-year-old inmate. Cbc.ca

White House calls Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution ‘troubling’ » Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was executed Thursday night using nitrogen hypoxia, the first known instance in the world that method was used to execute a prisoner. Washingtonpost.com

How Nitrogen Executions Could Go Wrong - Oklahoma Watch » Oklahoma officials say that using inhalation of nitrogen to carry out the death penalty will be safe and humane. But uncertainty surrounds the process, including how it will force inmates to inhale the gas and what will happen if they resist. Oklahomawatch.org

Death Penalty Information Center » The Center also produces groundbreaking reports on various issues related to the death penalty such as arbitrariness, costs, innocence, and race. Deathpenaltyinfo.org

First nitrogen gas execution in US has happened, but did it go as expected? » The Alabama attorney general says he believes more nitrogen gas executions will occur after Kenneth Smith became the first person in the U.S. to be executed that way. Abcnews.go.com

Kenneth Eugene Smith executed by nitrogen hypoxia in Alabama, marking a first for the death penalty » Alabama went through with its planned execution on Thursday of Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was the first condemned inmate in the U.S. put to death using nitrogen gas. Cbsnews.com

Alabama plans to execute a man using nitrogen gas. How will it work? Few know. » Kenneth Eugene Smith, convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire plot, could become the first death row inmate put to death by nitrogen hypoxia in the U.S. Nbcnews.com

Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith put to death in first U.S. nitrogen gas execution » Smith, 58, was executed by nitrogen hypoxia — the state's second attempt to put him to death after a failed lethal injection. Nbcnews.com

What happened at the nation's first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account » Witnesses watched through a window at an Alabama prison as Kenneth Eugene Smith became the nation's first person to be put to death using nitrogen gas. Apnews.com