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Nitrogen hypoxia execution
January 31 , 2024
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- Alabama, a US state with 165 people on death row, carried out the first-ever execution by an untested method known as nitrogen hypoxia.
- The convicted man had been on death row since 1996.
- Nitrogen hypoxia is a method of execution where a respirator mask is placed over the inmate’s face, and their breathing air is replaced with pure nitrogen gas.
- This deprives the individual of oxygen, leading to unconsciousness in a few seconds, and ultimately causing death in several minutes.
- Lethal injection is the most common form of execution in the US and was also introduced as an experimental and “gentler” method in 1982.
- The last execution in US using gas was in 1999, by using hydrogen cyanide gas.
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