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20 Feb 2024, 12:36 pm by Eugene Volokh
Bonta, decided today [Sept, 13, 2023] by Ninth Circuit Judge Kenneth Lee, joined by Judges Randy Smith and Lawrence VanDyke: This case is not about whether children can buy firearms. [read post]
19 Feb 2024, 12:04 pm by John Floyd
    What do we know about the Kenneth Smith death process? [read post]
18 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
On February 8, 1924, the state of Nevada used cyanide gas to put Gee Jon to death.In a cruel twist of history, in January of this year the state of Alabama revived the use of gas when it put Kenneth Smith to death. [read post]
Harcourt, counsel for death row inmate David Phillip Wilson, asserted in the Thursday lawsuit that the results of Kenneth Eugene Smith’s January execution demonstrate that “nitrogen gas asphyxiation is neither quick nor painless, but agonizing and painful. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The line of questioning suggests that long after the FBI seized dozens of boxes and more than 100 documents marked classified from Mar-a-Lago, Smith’s team was trying to determine if there might still be more classified material there. [read post]
1 Feb 2024, 4:00 am by Eric Berger
  Before long there were conflicting reports about whether Kenneth Smith's execution was "humane and effective" or badly botched. [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Last week, Kenneth Eugene Smith became the first person in the United States to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia—in which a mask attached to Smith’s face poured pure nitrogen into his lungs, thus depriving him of oxygen. [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
On Thursday night, Alabama carried out the first-ever U.S. execution of a human being by nitrogen gas when it used that method to kill Kenneth Eugene Smith. [read post]
28 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
That promise was broken when Alabama killed Kenneth Smith.Lee Hedgepeth, a reporter who witnessed Smith’s execution, made that clear in his detailed account of what he saw. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 5:55 pm by Howard Bashman
“Alabama executes Kenneth Eugene Smith by new nitrogen gas method for 1988 murder of pastor’s wife”: Ivana Hrynkiw of Alabama Media Group has this report, along with a report headlined “Kenneth Smith thrashed and writhed during execution: ‘That was torture,’ spiritual adviser says. [read post]
The post Alabama executes Kenneth Smith by nitrogen gas after US Supreme Court rejects final appeal appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, (11th Cir., Jan. 24, 2024), the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision refused to stop the January 25 execution of death row inmate Kenneth Smith. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 3:00 am by Jeff Welty
The AP reports here that “Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. . . . after breathing pure nitrogen gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation. [read post]
25 Jan 2024, 5:49 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
Later today, the State of Alabama will execute Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia. [read post]
24 Jan 2024, 7:09 pm by Howard Bashman
“After a Botched Execution, Alabama Is Trying an Untested Method; The state plans to carry out the first U.S. execution via nitrogen hypoxia with Kenneth Smith, who survived an earlier attempt to execute him by lethal injection”: Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs of The New York Times has this report, along with a report headlined “Supreme Court Declines to Stop Nitrogen Execution in Alabama; Both the Supreme Court and a federal appeals court denied stays sought by… [read post]
Amnesty International reiterated its calls to stop the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith in Alabama by nitrogen hypoxia. [read post]
23 Jan 2024, 4:14 am
"... depriving him of oxygen needed to stay alive, on Thursday in the nation’s first execution attempt with the method. [read post]
19 Jan 2024, 8:38 am by Alison Mollman
On January 25, the state of Alabama will attempt to execute Kenneth Smith using nitrogen hypoxia, forcing him to inhale pure nitrogen through a mask until he suffocates. [read post]