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Death with a gas mask: Court ruling moves Alabama closer to using untried execution method

A ruling Thursday by the Alabama Supreme Court moved the state closer to executing an inmate in a way no state has ever done. Alabama’s nitrogen hypoxia method, five years in the making, would use a ...
PBS

Why Alabama’s plan to execute a prisoner using nitrogen gas is raising concerns

Unless the courts intervene, a death-row inmate in Alabama is scheduled on Thursday to become the first person in the U.S. to be executed using an untested method: nitrogen hypoxia. Alabama’s ...
CBS News

Alabama execution using nitrogen gas could "amount to torture" and violate human rights treaties, U.N. warns

Update: Kenneth Eugene Smith was executed by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday, Jan. 25. Read the latest here. Our earlier story is below. The top human rights official at the United Nations is calling on ...
Morningstar

Gas-mask maker Dräger joins companies banning products from use in death-penalty supply chain

'Our products are intended to support, protect and save lives,' Dräger's chairman tells MarketWatch ahead of Alabama's second nitrogen-gas execution A major gas-mask manufacturer this week said it ...
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Baby Jesus with zip-tied wrists and Mary in a gas mask: Why some churches are taking a stand with anti-ICE nativity scenes

“This nativity is a visual reminder...that the attacks on our immigrant neighbors are attacks on God's own self,” Urban Village Church Pastor Abby Holcombe tells PEOPLE A number of churches around the ...