The United Nations’s human rights office urged Alabama to halt its first planned execution of an inmate by nitrogen gas, warning Tuesday that an execution using the method could amount to torture. Kenneth Eugene Smith, a prisoner in Alabama, is expected to be executed Jan. 25 by nitrogen hypoxia, in which a person is deprived…

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