Alabama is scheduled to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas on Jan. 25. Smith was convicted for the murder-for-hire killing of Elizabeth Sennett in 1988. It will be the nation’s first execution using this method, which the inmate’s lawyers criticize as cruel and experimental. Read more: https://wapo.st/3SvuTxY. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK

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