The first execution by nitrogen gas was authorized in America/ United Nations: torture is cruel

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): A judge in the United States and the state of Alabama allowed officers to execute a prisoner with nitrogen gas in a sentence that is to be executed at the end of January this year.

 

According to the AFP report, this sentence paves the way for the first execution in the United States with a new method that the prisoner's lawyers consider cruel and experimental.

 

U.S. District Judge Robert Austin Huffaker denied Alabama inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith's request for an injunction to stay his January 25 execution by nitrogen gas.

 

Smith's lawyers said the state is trying to make him a test case for an untested execution method, and they are expected to appeal the judge's decision.

 

It is possible that this issue about the possibility of executing the death sentence using nitrogen gas will reach the US Supreme Court for a decision.

 

It should be noted that nitrogen makes up 78% of the air we breathe, and it is harmless if it is breathed together with oxygen. But the problem is that changing the composition of breathing air to 100 nitrogen causes a person to be deprived of the oxygen he needs.

 

Currently, execution by electric chair and lethal injection is one of the most common methods of execution in America.

 

The defendant, Kenneth Smith, who was convicted of the 1988 murder, is scheduled to be executed in Alabama on January 25 using a method in which authorities place a mask over his face connected to a nitrogen cylinder. Is. Officials say he will die quickly and painlessly.

 

Meanwhile, UN experts warned last week that the first instance of execution by asphyxiation by inert gas is likely to violate the international treaty against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment. A complaint has also been filed against the Alabama justice system that, due to its novelty, this work will probably cause oxygen to return to the body of the accused or his stroke or suffering caused by the bad performance of the execution system.