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The UN human rights office has called on authorities in the US state of Alabama to halt the planned execution of a man by nitrogen hypoxia saying the “novel and untested method” could amount to torture under international human rights law.1 Kenneth Eugene Smith, aged 57, was convicted for a murder for hire committed in 1988. He is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia on 25 January. He survived a botched attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2022 after staff failed to establis...

The UN has said that the scheduled execution of Kenneth Smith in Alabama later this month using nitrogen gas would amount to ‘torture’

The imminent execution of an American prisoner by a new and untested method - suffocation by nitrogen gas - could amount to torture, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, warned on Tuesday. Kenneth Eugene Smith was convicted of murder in 1988 and is scheduled ...

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Attorneys for the first inmate slated to be put to death with nitrogen gas have asked a federal appeals court to block the execution scheduled later

The United Nations is calling for Alabama to halt the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith over the method planned, nitrogen hypoxia, which it says is torture.

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…

The inmate, Kenneth Eugene Smith, already survived a botched execution attempt by lethal injection in 2022.

The U.N. human rights office has called on Alabama to halt its plans to execute Kenneth Smith using nitrogen gas on January 25.

The United Nations human rights office has called on Alabama to halt its plans to carry out its first execution using nitrogen gas, saying it could violate…