The state tried but failed to execute the inmate by lethal injection last year, according to a lawsuit filed by his attorneys seeking to stop the execution.
Alabama has set a January execution date for what would be the nation's first attempt to put an inmate to death using nitrogen gas . Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday announced a Jan. 25 execution date for Kenneth Eugene Smith using the new method. Smith was one of two men convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of Elizabeth Sennett in northwestern Alabama .
Smith — this time with an experimental, never-before-used method and with a protocol that has never been fully disclosed to him or his counsel — is unwarranted and unjust,” Smith's attorney Robert Grass wrote in an emailed statement. The statement referenced that jurors at Smith's trial voted 11-1 to recommend a sentence of life imprisonment, but a judge overrode that recommendation and imposed the death penalty.
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