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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
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 United States.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney Thursday and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen, in the nation’s first execution attempt with the method. The Alabama attorney general’s office told federal appeals court judges last […]
The execution, using a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, would be the first attempt to use a new method since lethal injection was introduced in 1982.
Alabama intends to put a man to death with nitrogen gas this week unless stopped by the courts.