Alabama judge to rule on allowing execution by nitrogen
The state will look at the alternative execution method amid a spate of botched executions in the US.
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The state will look at the alternative execution method amid a spate of botched executions in the US.
The US state of Alabama is set to resume executions by the use of lethal injection after failed executions last year.
A convicted murderer is to be put to death in Alabama on Thursday in the first use of lethal injection in the southern US state since a series of botched executions last year.Alabama Governor Kay Ivey issued a temporary moratorium on executions last year after problems with lethal injections.
States are scrambling to find lethal injection drugs, using fentanyl. Others are even bringing back hanging as an alternative method.
‘There can be about 10 seconds of extreme pain before death at times, but I find it to be, in my personal view, more humane than lethal injection,’ lawmaker says