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US state of Alabama introduces an innovative method of executing criminals nitrogen hypoxia to replace lethal injections
The state of Alabama asked a court on Friday to schedule the execution of convicted killer Kenneth Eugene Smith via the novel method of nitrogen hypoxia.
Attorney General Steve Marshall requested that the Alabama Supreme Court set a date for what would be the second attempt to execute Smith, who was convicted in 1988 of killing a preacher’s wife in a murder-for-hire scheme masterminded by the preacher himself.
An execution gas chamber
A previous attempt to execute Smith via lethal injection failed last year when the technicians were unable to insert the IV tube to deliver the deadly drug cocktail.
The state of Alabama asked a court on Friday to schedule the execution of convicted killer Kenneth Eugene Smith via the novel method of nitrogen hypoxia. Attorney General Steve Marshall requested that the Alabama Supreme Court set a date for what would be the second attempt to execute Smith, who was convicted in 1988 of killing a preacher’s wife in a murder-for-hire scheme masterminded by the preacher himself.
A previous attempt to execute Smith via lethal injection failed last year when the technicians were unable to insert the IV tube to deliver the deadly drug cocktail.
Sennett committed suicide a week after the murder, though not before confessing to his sons that he had been having an affair and was responsible for their mother’s death. Botched lethal injections are not uncommon in the US – Smith’s was the second in just two months in Alabama and its third since 2018.
The main drugs once used in the process are no longer produced domestically and are illegal to import for purposes of execution, leaving states to improvise with occasionally disastrous results.
The grisly spectacle of botched lethal injections has apparently made the idea of nitrogen hypoxia popular even among death row inmates. At least eight prisoners in Alabama have sued to be killed this way since the method became legal in 2018.
Source AFP/reuters/RT
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