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As US states search for a new method to put criminals to death, the gas is being used for first time.
A convicted murderer is scheduled to be executed in the southern US state of Alabama this week using nitrogen gas, a novel method that the United Nations has likened to "torture."He is to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, a method which has not been used before in the United States.
The Supreme Court rejected an Alabama death row inmate’s last-minute request for a stay of execution over the proposed use of an untested method: lethal gas.
The Supreme Court rejected Kenneth Smith's argument that it would be unconstitutional for the state to attempt a second execution after a failed lethal injection in 2022.