Kenneth “Kenny” Smith, 58, is set to die by nitrogen hypoxia today. Smith will breathe in the toxic gas through a mask, which will deprive his body of oxygen until he dies.

Nitrogen hypoxia is a form of execution in which an inmate is deprived of oxygen until they breath only nitrogen, causing asphyxiation. Nitrogen, a colorless, odorless gas, makes up about 80% of ...

Alabama prepares to carry out first execution by nitrogen asphyxiation 04:40. A death row inmate in Alabama, Kenneth Eugene Smith, was executed Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, a controversial ...

Death that results from nitrogen-induced hypoxia is not caused by what’s in the gas, but what isn’t — oxygen. Nitrogen makes up about 80% of the air we breathe, and as an inert gas, is not ...

What is nitrogen hypoxia? Hypoxia is a medical term for a state of insufficient oxygen in the body. Nitrogen, a colorless, odorless gas, makes up about 78 percent of the air inhaled by humans.

Nitrogen hypoxia is a form of inert gas asphyxiation. Nitrogen is safe to breathe – it makes up 78% of what we inhale – but only when mixed with suitable amounts of oxygen.

However, when Alabama authorized nitrogen hypoxia in 2018, state law gave inmates a brief window to select it as their preferred execution method. A number of inmates selected nitrogen.

A man who killed a store clerk during a robbery at an Alabama convenience store in 1997 now knows when he will put to ...

What is nitrogen hypoxia and how was it used to execute Smith? Nitrogen exists organically in the atmosphere, composing around 80% of the air that humans and animals breathe.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama told a federal judge that it could soon be ready to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence. The disclosure came ...

Though nitrogen hypoxia sounds scientific, it is not even a medical term. It’s a made-up expression to describe low oxygen through the use of nitrogen gas, Joel Zivot, ...

Execution Date Set for Man Convicted in 1997 Attalla Gas Station Murder ATTALLA, Ala. – A man convicted of killing a ...