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Following months of debate in Parliament, Zimbabwe's Cabinet has agreed to abolish the death penalty, a punishment that hasn't been used there since 2005. Zimbabwe is one of more than a dozen countries in Africa and more than 50 across the world that still have the death penalty. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Robin Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information

Attorney General Steve Marshall said that after Thursday night, ‘nitrogen hypoxia as a means of execution is no longer an untested method. It is a proven one’

UN terms the method ‘inhuman’, EU calls it ‘unusual’

“Where there’s a will, there’s a way” is an old English proverb. The exact origin of the universally applied adage is unknown. But its meaning is profound yet simple and

Alabama plans to put an industrial-grade respirator mask over Mr. Smith’s face and replace his breathing air with pure nitrogen gas, causing him to die from lack of oxygen. He will not be rendered unconscious before the procedure begins.

The southern US state of Alabama on Thursday put to death a convicted murderer using nitrogen gas, the first time the controversial method decried by human rights advocates has been used in the country.

Alabama put to death a convicted murderer using nitrogen gas, the first time the controversial method criticized by human rights advocates.

UN rights chief condemns US execution using nitrogen gas, calling it potentially torturous. Stay updated on this controversial method of punishment

Fending off doubts and criticisms, Alabama’s attorney general hailed a new execution method as “humane and effective.”

The UN and European Union condemned the United States on Friday after the countrys first execution of an inmate using nitrogen asphyxiation, an untested method that has reignited a debate