Supreme Court rules in favor of death row inmate seeking lethal gas over injection

The Supreme Court sided with an Alabama death row inmate on his preferred execution method in a ruling released Monday. Inmate Kenneth Smith, who was sentenced to death for the contract murder of Elizabeth Sennett in 1988, asked to die by lethal gas instead of lethal injection, the latter of which is the typical method for the death penalty. Smith argued it would cause a severe amount of pain, violating his Eighth Amendment rights to be free of cruel and unusual punishment. THE TOP ISSUES KENTUCKY GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES ARE CAMPAIGNING...