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United Nations experts are sounding the alarm over the planned execution of an Alabama inmate by nitrogen gas, arguing it is an “untested” method that could subject the inmate to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment” or torture. In a report issued Wednesday, a panel of U.N. experts — part of the Human Rights Council’s special…

(Sundiata Post) Some top UN-appointed independent human rights experts have called on the U.S. to stop the imminent execution of a man on death row using the untested method of inhaling pure nitrogen. Kenneth Eugene Smith was convicted of murder in 1988 and sentenced to death. He is scheduled to be executed on Jan. 25…

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The death row inmate — jailed after being paid to murder a pastor’s wife — could be killed in a first by breathing pure nitrogen

Alabama is poised to use nitrogen gas in a planned execution next month — making it the first of any state to attempt such a method and setting the stage for legal challenges.

Alabama will execute an inmate using a gas chamber in January, the first time such a method will be used in decades for execution in the United States.

A federal judge in Alabama is urging for a change to the procedure of what would be the nation's first execution via nitrogen hypoxia next month.

A federal judge who is weighing whether to allow the nation’s first execution by nitrogen hypoxia to go forward next month, urged Alabama on Thursday to change procedures so the inmate can pray and say his final words before the gas mask is placed on his face. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker made the suggestion in a court order setting a Dec. 29 deadline to submit information before he rules on the inmate’s request to block the execution. Alabama is scheduled to execute Ke...

A federal judge is considering whether Alabama should be allowed to use nitrogen gas for the nation's first execution of this method after a lawsuit challenging the plan.

Kenneth Eugene Smith will be executed on January 25, almost 35 years after he stabbed pastors wife Elizabeth Sennett, 45, in a contract hit and was sentenced to death - but the execution failed.