UN "Alarmed" at Alabama’s Nitrogen Execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith

A panel of United Nations experts Wednesday “expressed alarm” over Alabama’s planned execution of a death row inmate later this month by nitrogen hypoxia.

Kenneth Eugene Smith is set to be executed 25.01.2024 by the practice, which the panel called “an untested method of execution which may subject him to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or even torture.”

Smith would be the first inmate executed by nitrogen hypoxia, which the Alabama Legislature approved in 2018 but that no state has ever used.

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