US EditionAlabama seeks to carry out second execution using controversial nitrogen gas method
- Alabama seeks to carry out a second execution using nitrogen gas on Alan Eugene Miller, convicted of killing three people in 1999.
- Miller, who has been on death row since 2000, survived a previous lethal injection attempt, leading to an agreement that nitrogen gas would be used for future executions.
- The state plans to execute Miller by means of nitrogen hypoxia, despite controversy surrounding the method after a previous execution resulted in convulsions and shaking by the inmate.
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Alabama asks Supreme Court to approve second nitrogen gas execution weeks after first - Washington Examiner
Alabama is looking to use the nitrogen hypoxia execution method for the second time after the new method was used last month on death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith. Smith, who was convicted of stabbing a woman to death in 1988 in a murder-for-hire scheme, was strapped to a gurney and exposed to nitrogen gas through a tube and into a mask. Smith’s spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeff Hood, witnessed his death and said he convulsed and “popped up” o…
The EU and the UN have already officially condemned the first, as “cruel, inhuman and humiliating”.
Alabama aims to conduct second nitrogen execution
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Alabama’s attorney general on Wednesday asked the state’s Supreme Court to authorize a second execution by nitrogen hypoxia, after the state last month became the first to kill a condemned prisoner using the new method of capital punishment. Alabama has since offered to aid other states seeking to carry out executions using nitrogen gas, a method Alabama called “the most painless and humane method of execution kn…
Alabama seeks to carry out second execution using controversial nitrogen gas method
By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas. The move comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office is asking the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller. The state said Wednesday that Miller’s execution would be carried out by nitrogen …
Alabama seeks to carry out second execution using controversial nitrogen gas method
By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas. The move comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new method. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office is asking the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for Alan Eugene Miller. The state said Wednesday that Miller’s execution would be carried out by nitrogen …
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