US completes first execution using nitrogen gas

The southern US state of Alabama on Thursday night completed the country’s first execution using nitrogen gas asphyxiation.

Inmate Kenneth Smith, a 58-year-old convicted murderer, was put to death at 8.25 pm local time at an Alabama prison after breathing pure nitrogen gas through a face mask to cause oxygen deprivation, authorities said. – Xinhua

 

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