Execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith

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The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith (July 4, 1965 – January 25, 2024) took place in the U.S. state of Alabama. He was the first person to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia. On March 18, 1988, Smith was convicted of the contract killing of Elizabeth Sennett in Colbert County, Alabama. Charles Sennett Sr., Elizabeth's husband, recruited Billy Gray Williams to murder his wife. Williams in turn recruited Smith and John Forrest Parker to assist in the murder. Smith and Parker attempted to carry out the murder, beating and stabbing Elizabeth Sennett unconscious at her home in Colbert County. However, it is believed and concluded by Alabama Police that Charles Sennett killed his wife by stabbing her after returning home and seeing her body before calling police. A week after Elizabeth's murder, Charles Sennett killed himself when he learned he was a suspect in the murder. Billy Gray Williams was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole and died in prison in November 2020...

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