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
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — — Alabama's proposed procedures to carry out executions withinclude fitting a mask over the inmate's face and replacing their breathing air with nitrogen until their heart stops.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall on Friday asked the Alabama Supreme Court to set an execution date for Kenneth Smith, 58, using nitrogen hypoxia as the method of execution. The attorney general's office included a redacted copy of the protocol in a court filing asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Smith. Smith, in seeking to block the state's second attempt to execute him by lethal injection, had argued that nitrogen should be available.
If Alabama carries out an execution by nitrogen, it will be the first new execution method since lethal injection was introduced in the 1970s.
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