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US set to execute prisoner by nitrogen gas for first time

today26 January, 2024

Background

Alabama is set to become the first US state to use nitrogen gas to execute a prisoner on death row. It will be the second time the state has tried to execute Kenneth Smith – after a lethal injection failed in 2022. Smith was convicted for his role in a 1988 murder for hire plot. Our US correspondent Kate Fisher reports.

 

 

Written by: Leonard Witbeen