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Controversial Nitrogen Gas Execution Sparks International Outrage

Learn about the upcoming execution using nitrogen gas in Alabama and the concerns raised by UN experts regarding the method and its implications.

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Up First briefing: Pakistan attacks Iran; Maine court holds Trump ballot decision

Pakistan announced this morning it launched strikes against Iran in response to Iranian attacks earlier this week. A Maine court has put on hold the decision to bar Trump from the primary.

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Alarm as Alabama man to be executed via gas method rejected by veterinarians

Death row prisoner Kenneth Smith, 58, to be killed via nitrogen-gas procedure animal scientists have ruled out for ethical reasons

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Kenneth Smith could be the first person executed with nitrogen gas. He spoke with NPR

Smith rarely speaks with reporters about surviving a lethal injection execution in 2022. But he talked with NPR about Alabama's plans to try again, this time with a new method: nitrogen gas.

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Judge rules Kenneth Smith execution by nitrogen gas can move forward

Convicted murderer expected to be put to death later this month in first execution of its kind

The Independent UK

Australia's Dr Death fights for condemned killer in US

Australia's Dr Death has taken the stand in defence of a condemned man, warning US officials who botched his first execution could be about to do it again

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US death-penalty states buck public sentiment to find new ways to kill

Half of Americans call capital punishment unfair but a handful of states are pressing ahead using novel methods and secrecy

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UN experts join uproar over US plans for nitrogen gas execution

‘We are concerned that nitrogen hypoxia would result in a painful and humiliating death,’ the UN experts warned

The Independent UK

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

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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.

The Independent UK

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

Salon

Alabama: We want crueler executions

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

The Conversation

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.

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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

Tribune News Service

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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