What happened at the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account

What happened at the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution: An AP eyewitness account

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ATMORE, Alabama — As witnesses including five news reporters watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to die in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett, convulsed on a gurney as Alabama carried out the nation's first execution using nitrogen…

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