Tag: nitrogen
First prisoner executed with nitrogen in the USA
As of: January 26, 2024 5:03 a.m Human rights experts wanted to stop the execution until the very end. But all interventions were in vain. For the first time in…
Alabama carries out the first nitrogen execution of a death row inmate
The entrance to the Atmore penitentiary, Alabama, United States, on January 25, 2024, the day of the execution by nitrogen inhalation of Kenneth Eugene Smith. MICAH GREEN / REUTERS Despite…
Death penalty: First nitrogen execution carried out in the USA
death penalty First nitrogen execution carried out in the USA More on the topic shortly. photo © —/dpa infographic/dpa In the USA, a person sentenced to death has been executed…
Convict executed by nitrogen inhalation, a world first compared to “torture” by the UN
This method had never been used. The US state of Alabama executed a convict by nitrogen inhalation, Thursday, a world first denounced by the UN which compared this method of…
Execution in Alabama: Murderer Kenneth Smith is said to die from nitrogen
Because there is a lack of medication, US states are looking for new methods of execution. After two judicial decisions, the murderer Kenneth Smith is now to be the first…
What is this new technique based on nitrogen inhalation seen as “torture”?
“Torture”. The new execution method which is to be used this Thursday to kill Eugene Smith, a 58-year-old American inmate, is controversial. This killing by nitrogen hypoxia will be carried…
US state of Alabama: Execution by nitrogen for the first time
As of: January 25, 2024 8:05 a.m A murderer is scheduled to be executed in Alabama today. But not by lethal injection, as is usual, but by inhaling nitrogen. This…
Even the US Supreme Court does not prevent death from nitrogen
US court dismisses lawsuit Death by asphyxiation: Kenneth Eugene Smith is allowed to be executed with nitrogen Protests by opponents of the death penalty in Montgomery have also been of…
Death penalty: US justice system allows execution with nitrogen
death penalty US justice system allows executions with nitrogen View of Alabama’s lethal injection execution chamber at Holman Correctional Facility. An execution using so-called nitrogen hypoxia is now to take…
Kenneth Smith’s execution in the USA: nitrogen instead of lethal injection – Panorama
Now they are catching up with him again, the memories of the first anniversary of his death. It was November 17, 2022. Kenneth Smith had already had his last meal,…