Alabama nitrogen execution follows what critics call "insistence on secrecy"

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Alabama has the highest rate of death sentences per capita in America, in addition to one of the highest execution rates.
46% : Lawmakers had introduced it as a more "humane" substitute for lethal injections that would not require officers to insert an IV line and was sure to cause unconsciousness almost immediately followed by death shortly thereafter.
42% : "Pursuant to Act No. 2018-353, if I am to be executed, I elect that it be by nitrogen hypoxia rather than by lethal injection," read the first line of a printed form delivered to the men incarcerated in Holman's death row unit, which at the time housed around 140 inmates in stacked cell blocks.
40% : Miller's is one of five executions scheduled to take place within the span of a week in five different states, which is uncommon at a time in history where death sentences and executions are generally on the decline.
40% : Alabama was last in the country to outlaw judicial override in 2017, a decision its critics viewed as an overdue and potentially vital departure from an aged practice rooted in racism and tyranny, which, research suggests, had an outsize impact on the number of death sentences served in the state.
38% : CBS News identified at least 30 inmates on death row whose jurors voted to sentence them to life imprisonment without parole.
36% : Only Florida and Alabama allow divided juries to impose death sentences.
23% : There were two options: lethal injection, the default method, which Alabama had been accused of botching in the prison's execution chamber; and nitrogen hypoxia, an experimental alternative that the state, facing political pressure to carry out death sentences despite a tally of mistakes, had recently authorized.

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