Alabama engineer sues big defense contractor and was fired due to…
An engineer in Huntsville, Alabama, is suing the defense contractor Parsons Corporation for discrimination, claiming he was sacked for speaking his native Hindi at work.
FILE – The Alabama Department of Corrections provided this undated photo of inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in the 1988 murder-for-hire of a preacher’s wife. Alabama will be allowed to execute Smith with nitrogen gas, a federal appeals court concluded Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024, refusing to block the nation’s first execution using a new method since 1982. Alabama claims it will replace the 58-year-old’s breathing air with nitrogen gas on Thursday, Jan. 25, rendering him unconscious in seconds and killing him within minutes. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP, file). AP
Smith, 58, was charged with the murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Dorelene Sennett in Colbert County in 1988. Court papers suggest Smith claims he was paid $1,000 for the crime by the victim’s husband, Colbert County clergyman Charles Sennett Sr., who committed suicide before facing charges. A jury recommended that he be put to death at the time of his conviction, but this decision was reversed on appeal. In 1996, he was retried and found guilty of capital murder again. In an 11-1 vote, the jury recommended Smith be sentenced to life in prison, but the judge overruled the verdict and sentenced him to death. Smith was slated for lethal injection in 2022, but the treatment was called off at the last minute.
