'I'm not ready, brother': US man to be put to death months after botched execution attempt

Kenneth Smith, to be executed in Alabama by untested gas method, tells Guardian of nightmares from failed lethal injection On Tuesday morning, Kenneth Smith will be moved within the Holman correctional facility in Alabama to the "death cell", the bluntly named holding unit where condemned prisoners are placed two days before their appointed execution. Smith knows the cell well. He knows its dimensions and the feel of the place. He knows that it sits only about 20 feet from the death chamber wher...