Alabama executed a man Thursday night by nitrogen hypoxia, an untested method described by a witness as a “torturous execution” that shocked even correction officials in the room “who were visibly upset at how bad this thing went.” Kenneth Eugene Smith was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m. CT at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama. It was the state’s second attempt to execute the 58-year-old, who was convicted for his role in the murder-for-hire killing of a woman in 1988. In 2022, his execution by lethal injection had to be called off when Alabama officials spent an hour…