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Alabama's Supreme Court has agreed to put death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith to death with nitrogen gas rather than the lethal injection after a botched attempt last year.
Smith was sentenced to death in 1996 after admitting the murder-for-hire killing of a pastor's wife who was beaten and stabbed in 1988.
He had been hired by the woman's husband to kill her along as part of a life insurance scam. The pastor who ordered the hit killed himself before he could be arrested.
Smith was sentenced to death in 1996 after admitting the murder-for-hire killing of a pastor's wife who was beaten and stabbed in 1988
For 34 years, he awaited execution until last November.
But when prison doctors tried to find a deep enough intravenous connection for the lethal injection to take its effect, they couldn't.
Smith sued,
