
The case of 58-year-old Kenneth Eugene Smith in the US state of Alabama. The death penalty will be applied for the first time to nitrogen asphyxiation, a method already outlawed in the veterinary field.
In an interview, the prisoner said he was "terrified" at the thought of being "killed twice".
Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, is a survivor. Sentenced to death in the US state of Alabama, they tried to kill him for four hours, inserting the necessary needles to start the lethal injection into his veins; now they will try again: his will be the first case in the world of a prisoner sentenced to death due to nitrogen hypoxia, foreign media write.
Kenneth Eugene Smith was sentenced to death in 1988 for the murder of Elizabeth Dorlene Sennett, the wife of a pastor of the Wetside Church of Christ in Sheffield, Alabama, who wanted to collect his life insurance money. The sentence, which initially saw him sentenced to life in prison, was later commuted by a judge to the death penalty.
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