.ON JANUARY 25TH Kenneth Eugene Johnson came to be the first individual anywhere to be executed through nitrogen hypoxia. He was pronounced guilty in 1989 of killing Elizabeth Sennett, the wife of a preacher from Alabama, on her partner’s orders. The condition possessed first tried to execute him, through dangerous treatment, in Nov 2022, yet mishandled the method.
After that, Mr Johnson selected to be nailed to a cross through unique ways. His execution has actually resulted in indignation: Alabama states nitrogen hypoxia is actually a fast, pain-free fatality however many medical specialists disagree. Some have parallelled it to torture.
Why carried out Alabama authorise this untested approach?