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A lawsuit filed by lawyers for a spiritual adviser to an Alabama inmate scheduled to be executed with nitrogen gas next month say that restrictions on how close the adviser can get to the inmate in the death chamber are “hostile to religion.”
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Lawyers for the first inmate scheduled to be put to death with nitrogen gas argued in Monday court filings that Alabama is seeking to make him the "test case" for an experimental execution method and asked a federal judge to the block the January execution.
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Alabama has set a January execution date for what would be the nation's first attempt to put an inmate to death using nitrogen gas.
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An Alabama inmate would be the test subject for the "experimental" execution method of nitrogen hypoxia, his lawyers argued, as they asked judges to deny the state's request to carry out his death sentence using the new method.
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Alabama is seeking to become the first state to execute a prisoner by making him breathe pure nitrogen. The Alabama attorney general's office on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for death row inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58. The court filing indicated Alabama plans to put him to death by nitrogen hypoxia, an execution method that is authorized in three states but has never been used.
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No plans are known yet for the use of nitrogen hypoxia in state executions. The Alabama Department of Corrections said it does not have a timetable to…
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Alabama is almost done building a system that will carry out death sentences with nitrogen gas. The Alabama Department of Corrections said the next step…
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An Alabama committee has passed a bill allowing death row inmates to be executed with nitrogen gas. The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the measure 6-3…