Why is US executing using Nitrogen gas? - Hindustan Times
Controversy surrounds the execution of convicted murderer Kenneth Smith, the first person in the US to be executed by nitrogen gas.
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Controversy surrounds the execution of convicted murderer Kenneth Smith, the first person in the US to be executed by nitrogen gas.
A death row inmate in Alabama is scheduled to become the first ever person put to death by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday.
On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court declined to halt the execution of Alabama death row inmate Kenneth Smith, thereby paving the way for a wholly new method of execution using nitrogen gas.
Alabama is set to become the first state to use using nitrogen gas — a controversial method said to be painless that experts warn is an untested human "experiment" — in Kenneth Smith's execution Thursday.
Alabama intends to put a man to death with nitrogen gas this week unless stopped by the courts. It would be the first execution attempt with the method in the