Alabama inmate coughed, heaved for about 13 minutes during execution

An Alabama man convicted of murdering a convenience store clerk in 1994 was put to death by lethal injection on Thursday night, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stay the execution and amid ongoing legal challenges to the state’s lethal injection protocol.
Ronald Bert Smith Jr. had been on Alabama’s death row since 1995, when he was convicted of murdering Casey Wilson, a convenience store clerk, during a robbery.
The execution took place late Thursday night local time at