William Lindsey :toad: on Nostr: "Alabama has carried out the first execution of a death row inmate in the US using ...

"Alabama has carried out the first execution of a death row inmate in the US using nitrogen gas, an untested procedure which the prisoner’s lawyers had argued amounted to a form of cruel and unusual punishment banned under the US constitution. ...

Alabama claimed that the new nitrogen gas method was 'perhaps the most humane method of execution ever devised.'"

~ Ed Pilkington

#Alabama #DeathPenalty #execution #CapitalPunishment #ProLife
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/25/alabama-executes-kenneth-smith-nitrogen-gas