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The first execution using nitrogen gas in the US has put the spotlight on the country's use of capital punishment. During Nitrogen hypoxia, the inmate breathes pure Nitrogen through a respirator mask and the breathing is replaced with pure Nitrogen.
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Warning: Graphic content. As witnesses including five news reporters watched through a window, Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to die...
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Alabama officials said the nation’s first nitrogen gas execution was a model for other states. Critics called it appalling and far from what the state promised.
Kenneth Smith was put to death by nitrogen hypoxia, marking the nation’s first known execution using that method. Now an attorney general vows to help other states