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Kenneth Eugene Smith faces execution over a 1988 murder
The US Supreme Court will not block Alabama from executing Kenneth Eugene Smith with nitrogen gas, a method never used before for capital punishment.
Smith had asked the court to intervene, saying that pumping toxic nitrogen into his body through a mask was cruel and unusual torture.
The execution is scheduled for Thursday.
Alabama already tried to execute Smith by lethal injection two years ago for his 1989 murder conviction.
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