The US state of Alabama wants to impose the death penalty by breathing nitrogen. Should such a thing occur, it would be the first state in the United States to apply this method to a prisoner. writes about it Associated press.
According to the agency, the state’s attorney general has requested the local supreme court to set a date for the execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith, who escaped the death penalty in 2022 for failing to administer lethal injection.
“Alabama plans to execute him by nitrogen hypoxia,” the article says.
In such executions, the prisoner is only allowed to breathe nitrogen, which deprives him of oxygen. Currently, this method of punishment is allowed in three states of the USA, but it has never been used in practice.
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