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Alabama's attorney general on Wednesday asked the state's Supreme Court to authorize a second execution by nitrogen hypoxia, after the state last month became the first to kill a condemned prisoner using the new method of capital punishment. Alabama has since offered to aid other states seeking to carry out executions using nitrogen gas, a method Alabama called "the most painless and humane method of execution known to man" but one that human rights groups have condemned as cruel and torturous. Alabama has touted asphyxiation as a simpler alternative for prison systems th...

While less painful than the electric chair and quicker than lethal injection many still consider it barbaric and outdated and given that negative publicity utah adopted the lethal injection instead and some want to keep it that way. >> i think it will be bad if utah is the only state that's actively shooting people. i just think it's a bad precedent and i think it's a place we shouldn't go. disrespect problem is utah has nine inmates on death row and no way to kill them. lethal injection, the more humane method is under fire after two recent cases where the inmates did not die instantly or pai...