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Alabama describes proposed nitrogen gas execution; seeks to become first state to carry it out » Alabama’s proposed procedures to carry out executions with nitrogen gas include fitting a mask over the inmate’s nose and mouth and replacing their breathing air with nitrogen gas until their heart stops The state described the procedures for the proposed new execution method in a court filing. Apnews.com

Alabama Plans to Carry Out First Nitrogen Gas Execution. How Will It Work and What Are the Risks? » Alabama is preparing to attempt the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas Usnews.com

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Alabama's upcoming gas execution could harm witnesses and violate religious liberty » Alabama plans to execute a prisoner using nitrogen gas. NPR obtained a Department of Corrections document showing the method may pose risks to others in the room and impede religious liberties. Npr.org

Alabama readies never-before-used execution method that some veterinarians won't even use for pets » Politicians pushed for the nitrogen gas execution method with limited scientific research behind it. Critics say it could amount to torture. Cbsnews.com

Alabama plans to carry out first nitrogen gas execution. How will it work and what are the risks? » Alabama is preparing to attempt the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, is scheduled to be put to death Thursday by nitrogen hypoxia. Apnews.com

First U.S. execution by nitrogen gas would cause "painful and humiliating death," U.N. experts warn » Experts have denounced Alabama's planned execution of a death row inmate by nitrogen hypoxia — an untested suffocation method that they say could cause "grave suffering." Cbsnews.com

Alabama requests a date to execute an inmate via nitrogen hypoxia for the first time » Smith was supposed to be executed in November 2022 by lethal injection, but corrections officers failed to insert an IV properly. The U.S. Supreme Court has authorized nitrogen hypoxia in his case. Npr.org