Alabama's 3rd Congressional District

A clergyman working with a death row inmate scheduled to be executed by nitrogen next month said Friday that the Alabama Department of Corrections had approved a plan to allow him to minister to the inmate before his execution. Rev. Jeff Hood, who is serving as Kenneth Eugene Smith’s spiritual advisor, said in phone interview that the approval shows that the state is set on executing Smith. Smith, sentenced to death for the 1988 murder-for-hire killing of Elizabeth Sennett, is scheduled to be ex

IN THE NEWS Clergyman says DOC will allow him to minister to inmate during scheduled nitrogen execution BY: ALANDER ROCHA -