Witness describes final moments of Alabama prisoner killed with nitrogen gas
AL.com reporter Ivana Hrynkiw was one of 5 media witnesses at Kenneth Eugene Smith’s execution. In his final 32 minutes of life, Kenneth Eugene Smith, executed by the state of Alabama using an untested method of nitrogen gas, thanked those who supported him in his final year on Death Row. Smith, sentenced to death for the 1988 murder-for-hire of a pastor’s wife, said that he saw humanity “rise up” after he “suffered everything (he) did last year.”
Producer/Editor/Director: Amanda Khorramabadi
Reporter/Videographer: Ivana Hrynkiw
Spiritual advisor to executed inmate Kenneth Smith discusses his experience
Reverend Jeff Hood, who served as the spiritual advisor to executed inmate Kenneth Smith, talks about Smith's final moments. Hood prayed with Kenneth Eugene Smith before Alabama executed him by nitrogen gas and described it as “torture” that shocked witnesses and the prison officials standing nearby.
Smith became the first inmate to die using the new method of execution never before tested in the United States.
Producer/Editor/Director: Amanda Khorramabadi
Reporter/Videographer: Ivana Hrynkiw
Death Row inmate sues to stop another ‘botched’ Alabama nitrogen execution
Producer/Editor/Director/Writer/Voiceover: Amanda Khorramabadi
Reporter: Ivana Hrynkiw