UN experts alarmed by Alabama plan to kill prisoner using untried gas method

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : At trial, the jury voted overwhelmingly by 11 votes to 1 to give Smith a life sentence, but the judge overruled them and sent him to death row.
38% : Kenneth Smith is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia which four UN monitors could amount to tortureFour UN experts have expressed alarm over the upcoming execution of Kenneth Smith in Alabama, warning that the state's intention to kill the prisoner with an untested method using nitrogen gas could subject him to cruel and inhuman treatment amounting to torture.
36% : In November 2022, Alabama attempted to kill Smith through the conventional method of lethal injection.
31% : "If Kenneth Smith is executed by Alabama it will be both a miscarriage of justice and a barbaric act of state violence," Yorke told the Guardian.

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