Alabama to use nitrogen gas to execute man for 1994 slaying of hitchhiker | CNN

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Alabama this year began using nitrogen gas to carry out some death sentences, the first use of a new execution method in the United States since lethal injection was introduced in 1982.
47% : “Given this is the first new execution method used in the United States since lethal injection was first used in 1982, it is appropriate for this Court to reach the issues surrounding this novel method,” Grayson’s attorneys wrote.

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