Alabama will carry out the first-ever nitrogen gas execution this week

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47% : Mr Smith is only one of two people to survive lethal injection and is the only one still alive.
46% : The World Society for the Protection of Animals said in its 2013 guidelines: 'Current evidence indicates this method is unacceptable because animals may experience distressing side effects before loss of consciousness.'Alabama's lethal injection chamber at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., is pictured in this Oct. 7, 2002 file photoProsecutors said Smith and John Forrest Parker were each paid $1,000 to kill Elizabeth Sennett for husband Charles Sennett Sr., who was deeply in debt and wanted to collect on insuranceAmerica's 'double jeopardy' rule forbids the justice system trying a defendant twice for the same crime, but there's nothing in the US constitution to say they can't try to execute them twiceThe American Veterinary Medical Association made a similar conclusion in its 2020 guidance.
45% : Dr Joel Zivot, an anesthesiologist who was one of the four professionals who filed a complaint to the UN, said: '[The workers] could start to hyperventilate because their body would detect that they're in a low oxygen environment.''And that severe hyperventilation can lead to a stroke.''It's so telling that they just have no idea, and that they're going to try to kill him in a way that could kill other people, too.''They're not being realistic about what exactly is at stake here.'The protocol also does not specify how the oxygen will be stored to avoid contamination.
41% : A doctor testifying on Mr Smith's behalf also said that a low-oxygen environment could also cause nausea, leaving him to choke to death on his own vomit, which the UN called 'humiliating' and 'degrading.'This also poses a risk to anyone else in the room, which includes Mr Smith's spiritual adviser, who plans to stay in the chamber to deliver his client's last rites.
37% : Alabama hitman Kenneth Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for killing a woman on behalf of her preacher husband in 1988 and was due to be executed by lethal injection in November 2022 but survived after it was botched.
35% : And officials from the United Nations said it could breach human rights treaties that forbid 'torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.'Kenneth Smith is set to be executed with nitrogen gas this week, which the UN has branded 'torture' and scientists have largely banned from animal experimentsMr Smith was convicted of the 1988 murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Sennett on behalf of her preacher husbandThe new execution will be performed between 2am Thursday and 6am Friday central time, during which legal teams have the chance to log last minute appeals.
33% : The first-ever execution by nitrogen gas is set to go ahead in America tomorrow using a method so cruel and painful the UN calls it torture.
31% : In a news release, the UN said: 'We are concerned that nitrogen hypoxia would result in a painful and humiliating death.'Reverand Hood criticized the team for their previous failed execution.

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