Hypoxia
Alabama
Louisiana will join Alabama in adding nitrogen suffocation as option for killing prisoners
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Louisiana is on the cusp of resuming death penalty executions for the first time in more than a decade after the Legislature gave final pass...
Alabama
Nebraska | Opponents of death penalty decry proposal to use nitrogen gas for executions
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They claim it’s ‘untested, dangerous and inhumane,’ while a proponent calls it ‘painless’ and not subject to shortagesLINCOLN — A proposal t...
Alabama
Christian minister says nitrogen execution he witnessed is slow, ‘spiritually violent’ torture
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As the Rev. Jeff Hood was leaving for work one day back in January, his children begged him for one thing: to come back alive.“The kids woul...
Alabama
A new Louisiana capital-punishment bill would fundamentally alter physician licensing
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After the recent nitrogen gas execution in Alabama of Kenneth Smith, state Attorney General Steve Marshall said that nitrogen gas “was inten...
Alabama
Alabama seeks to perform second execution using nitrogen hypoxia
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Alabama has asked the state's Supreme Court to approve a date for death row inmate Alan Eugene Miller's execution, which would be ca...
Hypoxia
As Ohio lawmakers consider executions with nitrogen gas, Governor keeps postponing execution dates
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — While some lawmakers are seeking to revive Ohio’s death penalty through the use of nitrogen gas, Gov. Mike DeWine is contin...
Alabama
Opponents of Alabama's nitrogen executions want nitrogen companies to withhold supply
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Alabama in late January became the first state to use nitrogen gas in an execution, finding a new way to carry out a death sentence after dr...
Alabama
First nitrogen execution was a ‘botched’ human experiment, Alabama lawsuit alleges
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama death row inmate filed a lawsuit Thursday that challenges the constitutionality of nitrogen gas execution...
Alabama
USA | Voters divided over nitrogen gas executions
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Convicted killer Kenneth Eugene Smith's agonizing death on gurney left people wary of the new punishment, our first-of-its-kind poll rev...
Alabama
Kansas AG sponsors bill adding nitrogen hypoxia option for executions
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Lethal injection only permitted method since death penalty reinstated in 1994TOPEKA — Attorney General Kris Kobach introduced a bill in the ...
Alabama
43 Alabama inmates may face nitrogen gas executions
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More than a quarter of all inmates currently on Alabama's death row have chosen nitrogen gas as their execution method, and those decisi...
A. Scalia
Sister Helen Prejean: Alabama Just Showed Why We Must Kill the Death Penalty
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The first-ever use of nitrogen gas by Alabama to kill Kenneth Smith shows why the U.S. must end these futile, costly, deeply flawed governme...