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A man who killed his former girlfriend three decades ago is set to be put to death in March by lethal injection in what would be Georgia's first execution in more than four years

The method of using Nitrogen gas to starve death row victims of oxygen could revolutionise executions in the same way lethal injection did more than 40 years ago

The spiritual advisor for convicted hitman Kenneth Eugene Smith accompanied him into the chamber, where he witnessed what he called 'the most horrific thing' he'd ever seen done to another human

Kenneth Smith has become the first-ever inmate to be killed by nitrogen gas after Alabama state officials used a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen

Kenneth Eugene Smith will become the first-ever American to be executed by toxic nitrogen gas in Alabama - but Rev Dr Jeff Hood fears he will die too as he sits by his side as his spiritual advisor

Kenneth Smith and another man were each paid $1,000 to kill Elizabeth Sennett in 1988 by her husband Reverend Charles Sennett, who was in deep debt and wanted to collect on insurance

Jeffrey David Matthews, indicted in 1994 for the murder of his 77-year-old great uncle Otis Earl Short, delivered his final sentence before receiving a lethal injection at Oklahoma State penitentiary

Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people in Oklahoma in a planned hit on a federal building. He refused to give any final words instead providing a poem he copied by hand

James Barber, 64, was executed by lethal injection at 6 pm local time at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama. He was sentenced to death for the 2001 murder of 75-year-old Dorothy Epps

James Barber has rotted on death row for almost 20 years for the 2001 robbery and killing of Dorothy Epps, a 75-year-old homeowner for whom he worked as a handyman

A death row inmate has walked free after 29 years. Barry Jones was on death row in Arizona after he was wrongly found guilty of fatally assaulting a four-year-old girl

A killer in Florida is facing the death penalty after he was convicted of killing an 11-year-old girl and her babysitter in 1990. A jury voted 10 to two in favour of the penalty for Joseph Zieler

Michael Wayne Jones Jr. admitted to killing his wife with a metal baseball bat before stangling his step sons and drowning his two biological daughters in Marion County, Florida

Leonard 'Raheem' Taylor has always claimed his innocence, saying he was in California at the time his live-in girlfriend and her three children were shot to death in their Missouri home

Condemned Hassan Firouzi, 34, was seized by security police in his hometown of Shahr-e Ray on October and accused of taking part in a street demo in Tehran during the nation's widespread protests

Prominent preacher and academic Awad Al-Qarni, who often appeared on TV shows in Saudi Arabia, was arrested in 2017 at the start of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's crackdown against dissent

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Leila Eftetahi fled the ultra-conservative pilgrimage city of Mashhad, Iran, in 2015 with her husband Ali - who was punished twice with 82 vicious lashes for alcohol consumption charges after being caught DJing