UN calls to halt world's first nitrogen gas mask execution in Alabama

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45% : Several US states have struggled to get the barbiturates used in such executions, thanks in part to a European export banThe UN opposes all types of judicial executions, especially those that are deemed 'cruel.'Other UN experts have also sounded the alarm over the planned execution.
43% : It would be the first judicial execution tried anywhere in the world using asphyxiation with an inert gas, experts say.UN officials in Geneva want Alabama to abandon its experiment in death-by-nitrogenKenneth Smith, 58, was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wifeSpeaking in Geneva, Ravina Shamdasani, a spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office, said on Tuesday that the novel method could be illegal.
43% : Alabama's officials plan to use canisters of nitrogen in judicial executions, like those shown in this photoA file photo showing Alabama's lethal injection chamber at Holman Correctional Facility.
39% : Alabama botched his previously scheduled execution by lethal injection in November 2022 when multiple attempts to insert an intravenous line failed.

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