United Nations experts They asked on Wednesday American authorities that they don’t move on execution expected of a prisoner nitrogen hypoxiastating that this method could subject you to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or even torture“.

It is planned that Kenneth Smith found guilty of murder according to the order made in 1988, it is able to be executed Alabama January 25 using this method, the purpose of which is deprive you of oxygen using a mask connected to a nitrogen tank.

Smith58 years old He is one of only two people living in the United States to survive an execution attempt. after Alabama failed to carry out a previously scheduled lethal injection in November 2022 when multiple attempts to administer an IV failed.

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“It will be first attempt at execution for nitrogen hypoxia“The four UN special rapporteurs said in a statement that the method could cause “serious suffering” and would likely contravene the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment.

“We are concerned that nitrogen hypoxia will lead to death painful and humiliating“, they added.

Smith’s lawyers said the method could violate the Constitution’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment” and argued that a second attempt to execute him by any method was unconstitutional.

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Most executions in America are carried out using lethal doses of barbiturates, but Some states have had difficulty obtaining medications in connection with the law European Union which prohibits pharmaceutical companies from selling drugs to prisons that can be used in executions.

Reuters