Alabama execution using nitrogen gas could amount to torture UN warns

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40% : This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wifeEarlier this month, UN experts expressed alarm over the choice, stating that it may 'subject him to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or even torture'Elizabeth Sennett, 45, was found dead on March 18, 1988, in her home in Alabama's Colbert County.
37% : Earlier this month, UN experts expressed alarm over the choice, stating that it may 'subject him to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or even torture'.
20% : Reverend Jeff Hood (pictured) is suing to stop a hitman on death row from being executed with poison gas, arguing it could put his own life at risk tooJohn Forrest Parker, the other man convicted in the slaying, was executed by lethal injection in 2010 - a fate that awaited Smith last year but was called off because workers were unable to start an intravenous connection before the execution warrant expired at midnightSeveral states turned to nitrogen hypoxia as a substitute for lethal injection as the drugs required became more scarce and expensive.

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