ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man received a lethal injection Thursday for the 2004 deaths of an elderly couple who police said were attacked with a hammer, machete and tire tool during a robbery at their home. Jamie Ray Mills, 50, was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m. after a three-drug injection at a southwest […]
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Gas stoves expose millions in the US to unsafe limits of nitrogen dioxide, and disadvantaged communities face higher risk
Gas and propane stoves significantly increase exposure to nitrogen dioxide in rooms throughout the home, and these unsafe levels of exposure have had harmful effects on the health of tens of thousands of people in the United States, according to a new study. The World Health Organization has set guidelines for exposure to various air […]
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Eskom Disputes Report Finding It Leads World Nitrogen Pollution
(Bloomberg) — Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., South Africa’s state power company, disputed the findings of a Greenpeace report that it operates many of the world’s worst emission sites for toxic nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide. Most Read from Bloomberg The Major Air Polluters in Africa report, released Thursday by Greenpeace in collaboration with the Centre […]
Three top nitrogen gas manufacturers in US bar products from use in executions
Three of the largest manufacturers of medical-grade nitrogen gas in the US have barred their products from being used in executions, following Alabama’s recent killing of the death row inmate Kenneth Smith using a previously untested method known as nitrogen hypoxia. The three companies have confirmed to the Guardian that they have put in place […]
Louisiana bill to legalize nitrogen gas executions passes special session
Louisiana is poised to become the fourth state in the nation to allow executions using nitrogen gas after a bill on Thursday cleared a key legislative hurdle. It is now headed for the desk of Gov. Jeff Landry, who is expected to sign it. The bill was introduced during a special legislative session focusing on […]
I witnessed Alabama execute a man using nitrogen gas. It was horrific and cruel.
Nobody alive was closer to the nation’s first and thus far only nitrogen hypoxia execution than I was. As Kenneth Smith’s spiritual adviser, I saw every horrific second before, during and after the curtains closed. I want to make something perfectly clear: Anyone who claims that this was anything short of torture is not just mistaken, they are a dangerous liar. Kenny Smith’s execution was […]
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Alabama death row inmate files complaint over nitrogen gas executions
ALABAMA (WHNT) — A new filing in Federal District Court is asking the court to stop another Alabama inmate from execution by nitrogen gas, saying that the execution of Kevin Eugene Smith using the method was ‘botched.’ The new filing, made on behalf of death row inmate David Wilson, argues executing Wilson using the current […]
Louisiana lawmaker’s bill would allow nitrogen gas executions
A Louisiana lawmaker is proposing a bill that would allow for nitrogen gas to be used in executions in the event lethal injection is unavailable, making it the latest state to consider adopting the practice after Alabama put a man to death last month through the first-of-its-kind method. Rep. Nicholas Muscarello, a Republican who chairs […]
Could Ohio be the next state to use nitrogen gas in executions? A new method would end a 5-year halt
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort Tuesday to bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, joining what could be a national movement in pro-death penalty states to expand capital punishment on the heels of Alabama’s first use of the method last week. Three states — Alabama, […]
Ohio could begin nitrogen gas executions under Bill backed by attorney general
Ohio’s Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort on Tuesday that would bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, ending a yearslong unofficial death penalty moratorium. Attorney general Dave Yost made remarks in a news conference about a Bill sponsored by Republican state Reps Brian Stewart and Phil Plummer. It would require […]