An American escaped the death penalty, he will be executed a second time

In the US, a death row inmate survived a lethal injection. Now they want to kill him with nitrogen.

The authorities of the US state of Alabama want to re-execute convict Kenneth Smith, who survived in November 2022 after a lethal injection, The Guardian reports.

Smith, 58, was found guilty of a murder committed in 1988 and sentenced to death by a judge. However, last year the convict was unsuccessfully given a lethal injection.

Prison doctors spent hours unsuccessfully trying to find a vein in the body to inject the lethal substance. Handcuffed, Smith was taken to the execution chamber and tied tightly to the burdens, then tortured with excruciating pain for hours, amounting, according to his lawyers, to torture.

Now Alabama authorities want to carry out the death penalty, but using an experimental method that has never been used in the penitentiary system.

The prisoner will be forced to breathe pure nitrogen. Nitrogen hypoxia within minutes should reduce the level of oxygen in a person’s brain and other vital organs, leading to death by suffocation.

The Attorney General petitioned the state Supreme Court to set a new execution date for Smith, using a previously unused method.

Experts on the death penalty denounced this intention, saying that, in fact, an experiment would be conducted on the condemned.

“Alabama once tortured Kenneth Smith in a failed assassination attempt. It would be extremely reckless and cruel to try to do it again, using an untested method of execution that could cause great suffering,” said Maya Foa, executive director of the human rights group Reprieve.

It will be remembered that in Singapore for the first time in the last 20 years, a woman was killed. The country has suspended executions during the pandemic. Before that, they were held on average once a month.

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