BREAKING NEWS – Washington. D.C. – The United Nations Human Rights Council is pushing to stop Alabama from following through with America’s first nitrogen gas execution later in January.
Kenneth Eugene Smith is scheduled to be executed on January 25, but U.N. experts argue there has been no evidence to suggest that nitrogen gas would not “result in a painful and humiliating death.”
While the U.N. experts offered no evidence that nitrogen hypoxia would result in suffering, they argue that nitrogen gas executions may violate the U.N. Convention against Torture and other U.N. agreements to which the U.S. is a party.
Smith chose nitrogen gas execution over the other new form of execution, which is the condemned inmate would have to smoke a dynamite cigar.