US state of Alabama carries out country's first execution using nitrogen gas: US media
WASHINGTON, Jan 26, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - The southern US state of Alabama on Thursday put to death a convicted murderer
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WASHINGTON, Jan 26, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - The southern US state of Alabama on Thursday put to death a convicted murderer
The United Nations and European Union condemned the United States on Friday after the countrys first execution of an inmate using nitrogen asphyxiation, an untested method that has reignited a debate about capital punishment
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For as long as America has had the death penalty, there have been questions about how best to carry it out. The execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith in Alabama on Thursday, the first American execution in which death was caused by suffocation with nitrogen gas, gave no indication of settling the legal, moral and technical questions that have long bedeviled states as they mete out the ultimate punishment.
Alabama is one of three states, along with Oklahoma and Mississippi, that have authorized the use of nitrogen gas to execute prisoners.