The state of Alabama will use the death penalty in the form of nitrogen hypoxia for the first time (this is a way of taking life when prisoners are forced to breathe only nitrogen, without oxygen).
A US court in Alabama authorized the execution of prisoner Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen hypoxia. This would be the first such enforcement in the United States, Axios reports.
Smith has an unusual and long history of execution.
In 1996, he was convicted of murder and later sentenced to death. But the jury initially sentenced him to life in prison without parole, and the trial judge rejected the jury’s recommendation and sentenced him to death.
Smith was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in 2022, but was canceled due to problems inserting an IV into a vein. Then he filed a petition for an alternative method of execution in the form of nitrogen hypoxia (this is a way of taking life when prisoners are forced to breathe only nitrogen, without oxygen).
The Prison Service initially refused him, but permission was granted in August 2023.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is scheduled to execute Smith within 36 hours from January 25 to 26.
UN human rights experts have warned that this method of execution is untested and could be “inhumane or harmful.”
Earlier it was reported that the authorities of the American state of Alabama want to execute for the second time the convict Kenneth Smith, who survived a lethal injection in November 2022. Smith, 58, was found guilty of murder committed in 1988, and the judge sentenced him to death. However, last year the convict was unsuccessfully given a lethal injection.
Let’s remember that last year in Singapore, for the first time in the last 20 years, a woman was killed. The country has suspended executions during the pandemic. Before this, they were held on average of one per month.
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