Everything you need to know about Alabama’s new nitrogen gas executions

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Alabama will be performing a new method of execution using nitrogen gas on Thursday after an inmate survived the traditional lethal injection in November 2022. If successful, the method will be the latest execution technique to be used since 1982.  

Kenneth Eugene Smith was convicted of stabbing Elizabeth Sennett to death in 1988. Smith, along with two accomplices, was hired and paid $1,000 by her husband to kill his wife so he could collect insurance. 

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