Author: Don Fletcher

Smith By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived a 2022 attempt by state corrections officials to execute him by lethal injection, became the nation’s first condemned inmate to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia when he was put to death last Thursday, January 25.Smith, sentenced to death for the 1988 capital murder of a Colbert County woman, escaped his date with death when prison doctors at William C.…

Local man arrested for drug distribution Turner Jenkins By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested an Atmore man January 24 on several charges, including distribution of a controlled substance.No details were provided, but Escambia County Detention Center records show that Damien Tynell Jenkins, 45, remained in the facility Friday afternoon, January 26.He is being held on one count each of trafficking in an unspecified controlled…