First nitrogen gas execution in US has happened, but did it go as expected?
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on January 28, 2024
Kenneth Smith, 58, became the first American to be executed by nitrogen gas.
January 26, 2024, 2:45 PM ET
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The Alabama attorney general said Friday that nitrogen gas is now a "proven" method of execution and that he believes more such executions will follow after the first one in the U.S. was carried out.
The inmate, Kenneth Smith, 58, was pronounced . . .
