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UN sounds alarm over US execution by nitrogen gas


January 4, 2024

GENEVA: United Nations experts on Wednesday called on US authorities not to go ahead with the planned execution of an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, saying the method may subject him to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or even torture”. Kenneth Smith, convicted for a murder-for-hire committed in 1988, is scheduled to be executed in the US state of Alabama on …

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