Published on January 25, 2024 at 05:42. / Modified on January 25, 2024 at 3:11 p.m.
Barring a final twist, Kenneth Eugene Smith lived his last hours on Thursday. A federal court rejected Wednesday evening the suspension of a new method of asphyxiation, never before used, against this inmate for more than thirty years on death row in Alabama, in the southeast of the United States . The Supreme Court also refused to intervene on Wednesday.
The governor of this state has set this Thursday or Friday as the date of the execution. Kenneth Eugene Smith will be the first to be executed in the country this year. Nitrogen, which makes up 78% of the air we breathe, will be injected into a mask placed on the inmate’s face. A way to cause asphyxiation, according to the protocol decided by Alabama.
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