The State of Alabama Supreme Court voted 6-2 to approve the use of nitrogen hypoxia to execute prisoners. The court's ruling put Alabama at the front of the line of states that want to use nitrogen instead of lethal injection to put a prisoner to death.
Alabama prisoners have spent house strapped to a gurney in the execution room before the procedure was called off because of failure of staff or equipment.The State of Alabama Supreme Court voted 6-2 to approve the use of nitrogen hypoxia to execute prisoners. The court’s ruling put Alabama at the front of the line of states that want to use nitrogen instead of lethal injection to put a prisoner to death.reported.
The high court’s ruling makes Kenneth Eugene Smith, whose first execution was also aborted, next in line for nitrogen execution for the 1988 murder-for-hire of Elizabeth Senne, a pastor’s wife, who was beaten and stabbed. He has confessed to his role in the crime. The nitrogen hypoxia method has received criticism from members of the medical community and human rights advocates. Joel Zivot, an associate professor of anesthesiology at Emory University co-authored a human rights complaint against the method.
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