.ON JANUARY 25TH Kenneth Eugene Smith became the very first individual anywhere to be put to death by nitrogen hypoxia. He was sentenced in 1989 of murdering Elizabeth Sennett, the spouse of a sermonizer coming from Alabama, on her partner's orders. The condition had 1st tried to execute him, by deadly treatment, in Nov 2022, yet mishandled the operation. Afterwards, Mr Johnson picked to be nailed to a cross through novel methods. His punishment has actually resulted in outrage: Alabama claims nitrogen hypoxia is actually a fast, pain-free death yet lots of medical experts differ. Some have parallelled it to torment. Why carried out Alabama authorise this untried method?