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UN experts alarmed by Alabama plan to kill prisoner using untried gas method

Kenneth Smith is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia which four UN monitors say could amount to torture

The Guardian - US

UN experts demand first execution by nitrogen gas in US is called off over 'grave suffering' concerns

Concerns 'cruel' state execution method would result 'in a painful and humiliating death'

Evening Standard

Alabama's upcoming gas execution could harm witnesses and violate religious liberty

Alabama plans to execute a prisoner using nitrogen gas. NPR obtained a Department of Corrections document showing the method may pose risks to others in the room and impede religious liberties.

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Florida’s revival of death penalty fuels rise in US executions in 2023

Governor Ron DeSantis scheduled six of the country’s 24 executions this year amid his presidential election bid

The Guardian - US

‘Astonishingly cruel’: Alabama seeks to test execution method on death row ‘guinea pig’

Nine months after Kenneth Smith’s botched lethal injection, state attorney general has asked for approval to kill him with nitrogen

The Guardian - US

Alabama's new plan for execution

"Nitrogen hypoxia" is the latest brilliant idea in the ugly history of supposedly painless execution methods

Salon

Alabama requests a date to execute an inmate via nitrogen hypoxia for the first time

Smith was supposed to be executed in November 2022 by lethal injection, but corrections officers failed to insert an IV properly. The U.S. Supreme Court has authorized nitrogen hypoxia in his case.

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Alabama wants to be the 1st state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe only nitrogen

Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen

The Independent UK

Alabama: We want crueler executions

State court gives Gov. Kay Ivey full control over death warrants, which may be both illegal and unconstitutional

Salon

Alabama’s execution problems are part of a long history of botched lethal injections

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has announced a pause in her state’s use of capital punishment. It follows a run of botched lethal injection executions in the state, including two where the procedure had to be abandoned before the inmates succumbed to the cocktail of death drugs.

The Conversation

Alabama halts executions; can't fix them

After a gruesome series of executions gone wrong, Gov. Kay Ivey hits pause. But there's no fixing the death penalty

Salon

In final campaign stretch, Georgia candidates clash on crime

Georgia elections this year have been dominated by pocketbook struggles, rollbacks to abortion access and wavering confidence in democracy itself. But another familiar issue has elicited fireworks at recent matchups between candidates at the top of the ticket: crime.

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