# nitrogen gas death

Lawsuit challenges Alabama's plan to execute a death row inmate with nitrogen gas » Alabama is preparing to employ a new method of execution using nitrogen gas following botched attempts at lethal injections last year. Cbsnews.com

Nitrogen Should Not Be Used for the Death Penalty » The most important question is whether killing prisoners with nitrogen is cruel and unusual, the constitutional threshold for death penalty implementation. Newsweek.com

Alabama plans to carry out first nitrogen gas execution. How will it work and what are the risks? » Alabama is preparing to attempt the nation’s first execution using nitrogen gas Abcnews.go.com

States Turn to an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas (Published 2018) » As problems mount with lethal injection, Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma are developing protocols for using nitrogen to carry out the death penalty. Little science exists about the method. Nytimes.com

Ala. inmate asking federal appeals court to block first-ever nitrogen gas execution » An attorney for an Alabama inmate set to be the nation’s first person ever put to death by nitrogen gas on Friday asked a federal appeals court Friday to block the upcoming execution using “untested methods” Kenneth Smith is scheduled to be executed by… Abcnews.go.com

First U.S. execution by nitrogen gas would cause "painful and humiliating death," U.N. experts warn » Experts have denounced Alabama's planned execution of a death row inmate by nitrogen hypoxia — an untested suffocation method that they say could cause "grave suffering." Cbsnews.com

Ala. death row minister says religious liberty lawsuit settled ahead of nitrogen execution » The lawsuit argued that Alabama DOC's rule mandating a three-foot distance between the reverend and inmate during nitrogen execution was "hostile toward religion" Corrections1.com

Ala. sets January execution date using nitrogen gas » "The execution will be carried out by nitrogen hypoxia, the method previously requested by the inmate as an alternative to lethal injection," Gov. Kay Ivey said Corrections1.com