Rev. Jeff Hood, a spiritual adviser attending the nitrogen gas execution of Kenneth Smith in Alabama, has asked the state for additional safety precautions for bystanders and witnesses.
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…
U.S. faces global scrutiny as UN experts challenge the untested use of nitrogen for execution, labeling it potentially cruel and in violation of international treaties