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First execution with nitrogen gas set for Thursday night in Alabama
Alabama is slated to perform an execution using nitrogen gas Thursday night, in what will be the first time this method has been used in the United States. The decision comes after both the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal appeals court on Wednesday declined to halt the Yellowhammer State's planned execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, an inmate in Alabama. The execution by nitrogen hypoxia involves depriving a person of the oxygen needed to maintain bodily functions. The chemical element makes up 78 percent of the air inhaled by humans and is harmless when inhaled with oxygen. Smith, 58, is one of two men convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire killing in which he and an accomplic

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