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9 May 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
Despite promises that nitrogen would kill quickly and painlessly, media witnesses to the January execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith suggest it was anything but quick and painless.Marty Roney of the Montgomery Advertiser reported that “Kenneth Eugene Smith appeared to convulse and shake vigorously for about four minutes after the nitrogen gas apparently began flowing through his full-face mask in Alabama’s death chamber was another 2 to 3… [read post]
11 Mar 2024, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
From SSRN:James Gerard Dwyer, Smith's Last Stand? [read post]
25 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
”As the execution of Kenneth Smith showed, what was true in 1994 remains true today. [read post]
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]