An Alabama death row inmate ate a small last meal Thursday as he waited to be executed by the state for a 1988 contract killing.
Kenneth Eugene Smith, the Alabama convicted killer put to death Thursday night by nitrogen gas, was served a last meal hours before his execution, corrections officials said.
For his final meal, Smith was served steak with A.1. sauce, hash browns and eggs, the Alabama Department of Corrections said. Before that, he was served a breakfast meal that consisted of two biscuits, eggs, grape jelly, applesauce and orange juice at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore.
Smith, 58, was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. after breathing pure nitrogen gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation.
