UN Pushes to Stop Alabama from Using New Execution Method

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The United Nations is taking exception to a novel execution method planned for use by the state of Alabama.

The state is planning to use nitrogen gas to execute convicted murderer Kenneth Eugene Smith later this month, according to Fox News.

The execution will be the first of its kind in the United States.

Alabama’s planned method would substitute a nitrogen gas mask for a lethal injection, ultimately causing death by asphyxiation, according to CBS News.

The global organization claims that Alabama has failed to prove that the execution method will not result in “a painful and humiliating death” for Smith.

State officials previously attempted to execute Smith by lethal injection in November 2022 — only for the procedure to fail because staff could not locate a vein suitable to inject the drugs.

The entity criticized the United States’ continued use of the death penalty in a statement blasting the planned procedure.

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