Alabama Conducts First Execution With Nitrogen Gas in US

par This Is Beirut, 26/01 13:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The US state of Alabama executed a convicted murderer on Thursday using nitrogen gas, marking the first use of a method criticized by the UN rights chief as potentially constituting torture. The southern US state of Alabama put to death a convicted murderer using nitrogen gas on Thursday, the first time the country has used a method that the UN ...