Kenneth Eugene Smith's execution by lethal injection was botched in November 2022. Marshall asked the court to set a date for Smith to die by another method.
seeking another execution date for a Death Row inmate whose botched execution by lethal injection nearly a year ago led to a pause on death sentences being carried out.
Alabama is ready to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia, the state’s new but untested method of execution, Marshall said in Friday’s filing with the Alabama Supreme Court. “Smith has exhausted his direct appeal, his state postconviction remedies, and his federal habeas remedies. Consequently ... the ‘appropriate time’ for setting the date of Smith s execution has arrived,” Marshall said in the filing. “Moreover, the State is prepared to carry out Smith’s execution by means of nitrogen hypoxia. Consequently ...
Sennett was the wife of Charles Sennett, the pastor of the Westside Church of Christ in Sheffield. Elizabeth Sennett was fatally stabbed and beaten in 1988 after her husband hired two hitmen, including Smith. “It is a travesty that Kenneth Smith has been able to avoid his death sentence for nearly 35 years after being convicted of the heinous murder-for-hire slaying of an innocent woman, Elizabeth Sennett,” Marshall said in a statement.
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