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A death row inmate in Alabama is scheduled to be executed on Thursday using nitrogen gas, a method vets have deemed too cruel for animals.

Alabama intends to carry out the first known execution by nitrogen gas this week, when it’s scheduled to put to death Kenneth Smith some 14 months after failing to carry out his capital punishment by lethal injection.

Alabama plans to use nitrogen hypoxia, an untried method, to execute death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith on Thursday. Here's what that means.

Kenneth Smith has previously said that he is “terrified” by the prospect of being killed with nitrogen gas.

A death row inmate in Alabama is scheduled to be executed on Thursday, Jan. 25, using nitrogen gas. It will be the first U.S. execution carried out this way.

A Vatican-associated peace group is proposing a boycott of Alabama should a hitman’s execution by nitrogen gas proceed.

A death row inmate in Alabama is scheduled to become the first ever person put to death by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday.

UN called on Alabama to halt Smith’s execution scheduled for 25-26 January, “and to refrain from taking steps towards any other executions in this manner”.

The United State Supreme Court approved a motion by death row inmate Richard Glossip's lawyers to hear his case.Caertiorari was granted on Monday for Richard Gl

Euthanasia deaths in Europe and Canada have leapt by almost a quarter in just 12 months, raising fears that legalising assisted dying in the UK will become a slippery slope leading to more and more people choosing to die.