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. By Anna Betts and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Alabama ...

Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, who was sentenced to death for a 1988 murder-for-hire killing, has already survived one execution attempt from the state. Last November, he won a court case allowing him ...

Attorneys for Kenneth Eugene Smith claimed on Friday the state violated the U.S. Constitution, various court orders and its own lethal injection protocol during the "botched" execution attempt ...

The all-Republican court in a 6-2 decision granted the state attorney general's request for an execution warrant for Kenneth Eugene Smith. The order did not specify the execution method ...