Faith leaders speak out against Alabama's first nitrogen gas execution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : He chose nitrogen hypoxia as his preferred method, an untested alternate execution method that the state approved in 2018 when it was struggling to acquire the drugs used for lethal injections.
47% : Smith and five other inmates on death row chose nitrogen hypoxia, or asphyxia, as their preferred method of execution.
47% : That's why Smith's first execution attempt was by lethal injection.
45% : In lethal injection executions, the condemned is sedated before the compound that stops their heart is administered.
44% : "Nitrogen gas as an execution methodThe state began lethal injection in 1982, but the Alabama Legislature approved the use of nitrogen hypoxia as an alternative form of execution in 2018, when it became more difficult to get the drugs used in lethal injections.
41% : The Alabama Department of Corrections has repeatedly declined to comment on the type of drugs it uses or the specific steps and protocols used in lethal injection executions.

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