Name: Supreme Court declines to halt first US nitrogen-gas execution in Alabama case
Uploaded: 2024-01-24T15:17:51-05:00
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Description: By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt Alabama from proceeding with the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas to carry out the death penalty on convicted murderer Kenneth Smith, who survived a botched lethal injection in 2022 that helped prompt a review of the state’s death penalty procedures. The […]

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Supreme Court declines to halt first US nitrogen-gas execution in Alabama case

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to halt Alabama from proceeding with the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas to carry out the death penalty on convicted murderer Kenneth Smith, who survived a botched lethal injection in 2022 that helped prompt a review of the state’s death penalty procedures. The […]

First U.S. nitrogen-gas execution may constitute torture

GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. human rights office on Tuesday called on the U.S. state of Alabama to halt its first planned execution of a prisoner by nitrogen gas asphyxiation this month, saying it could amount to torture and violate U.S. commitments under international law. Kenneth Smith, convicted for a murder-for-hire committed in 1988, is […]