‘No Room for Error’: Alabama Set for First-Ever Execution Using Controversial ‘Unproven’ Method

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Prison officials in Alabama are getting closer to using an experimental method for the upcoming execution of a convicted murderer.

The man set to die, 58-year-old Kenneth Eugene Smith, survived an execution attempt last November when his executioners failed to find a vein in his arm as he was slated to die by lethal injection.

The botched execution grabbed headlines nationwide and the state’s prison officials paused the usage of capital punishment.

In addition to Smith surviving the attempt, lethal injection drugs are becoming more difficult to come by for state departments of correction.

Now, the state will experiment with a method that has never been tried before: asphyxiation by nitrogen gas – also called nitrogen hypoxia.

NBC News reported Smith will be the first person prison officials will attempt to execute through the “unproven” method.

No one, especially Smith, knows what to expect when a mask is placed over his face on Jan. 25.

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