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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alabama-nations-third-nitrogen-gas-execution-carey-dale-grayson/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab8a&linkId=663173550
It's that time once again where we return to Alabama and react to their new execution method of strapping someone to the death row table but rather than a lethal injection or even going back to the good old electric chair, hanging or firing squad, they get fitted with a respirator mask and get their lungs filled up with nitrogen gas instead. The execution takes place just after 6pm.
>An Alabama prisoner convicted of the 1994 murder of a female hitchhiker is slated to become the third person executed in the U.S., and Alabama, by nitrogen gas on Thursday. The United States Supreme Court denied a final petition to halt the execution Thursday afternoon, paving the way for it to go ahead as planned.
>Alabama this year began using nitrogen gas to carry out some death sentences, the first use of a new execution method in the United States since lethal injection was introduced in 1982. The method involves placing a respirator gas mask over the person's face to replace breathable air with pure nitrogen gas, causing death by lack of oxygen.
>Alabama maintains the method is constitutional. But critics — citing how the first two people executed shook for several minutes — say the method needs more scrutiny, particularly if other states follow Alabama's path and adopt the new execution method.
It's that time once again where we return to Alabama and react to their new execution method of strapping someone to the death row table but rather than a lethal injection or even going back to the good old electric chair, hanging or firing squad, they get fitted with a respirator mask and get their lungs filled up with nitrogen gas instead. The execution takes place just after 6pm.
>An Alabama prisoner convicted of the 1994 murder of a female hitchhiker is slated to become the third person executed in the U.S., and Alabama, by nitrogen gas on Thursday. The United States Supreme Court denied a final petition to halt the execution Thursday afternoon, paving the way for it to go ahead as planned.
>Alabama this year began using nitrogen gas to carry out some death sentences, the first use of a new execution method in the United States since lethal injection was introduced in 1982. The method involves placing a respirator gas mask over the person's face to replace breathable air with pure nitrogen gas, causing death by lack of oxygen.
>Alabama maintains the method is constitutional. But critics — citing how the first two people executed shook for several minutes — say the method needs more scrutiny, particularly if other states follow Alabama's path and adopt the new execution method.
