Alabama carried out the new method on convicted murderer for hire Kenneth Smith Thursday. Veuer's Elizabeth Keatinge has more.
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00:00 The first known judicial execution of a prisoner using asphyxiation with nitrogen gas
00:05 Alabama carried out the new method on convicted murderer-for-hire Kenneth Smith Thursday
00:11 It was Smith's second trip to the execution chamber
00:15 The first time around his execution was aborted after a struggle for hours to insert a needle into his body this time
00:22 Executioners restrained him in a gurney and attached a respirator mask to his face
00:27 The US Supreme Court's conservative majority ultimately rejected Smith's final appeal to delay his death
00:33 Oklahoma and Mississippi have also approved the execution method