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January 31, 2024
Distraught mother warns other families about ‘Cowboy Clinic’ Pegasos
A 47-year-old schoolteacher with no diagnosed illness paid more than £10,000 to die at a Swiss suicide clinic – which then kept his death a secret from his family. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that chemistry teacher Alastair Hamilton told his parents he was visiting a friend in Paris when instead he was flying […]
January 26, 2024
Alabama Carries Out First U.S. Execution by Nitrogen
Alabama Carries Out First U.S. Execution by Nitrogen Alabama carried out the first American execution using nitrogen gas on Thursday evening, killing a convicted murderer whose jury had voted to spare his life and opening a new frontier in how states execute death row prisoners. The execution of the condemned prisoner, Kenneth Smith, 58, began […]
January 25, 2024
Alabama plans first nitrogen execution on lethal injection survivor
Alabama plans first nitrogen execution on lethal injection survivor reports the Washington Post. When Kenneth Eugene Smith enters the death chamber at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., on Thursday night, he will be in a place that is at once familiar and entirely unknown. Smith, 58, is expected to be placed […]
January 25, 2024
Alabama to execute inmate with nitrogen gas, a never before used method
Alabama set to execute inmate with nitrogen gas, a never before used method By KIM CHANDLER Updated 6:30 AM GMT+1, January 25, 2024 MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama will attempt to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas on Thursday night, a never before used execution method that the state claims will be humane […]
January 25, 2024
Federal Court says Alabama can carry out first nitrogen execution
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama will be allowed to put an inmate to death with nitrogen gas, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, refusing to block what would be the nation’s first execution by a new method since 1982. A divided panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Kenneth Eugene Smith’s request for […]
January 24, 2024
Alabama calls nitrogen execution method painless and humane, but critics are raising doubts
Alabama calls nitrogen execution method painless and humane, but critics are raising doubts reports Kim Chandler at Associated Press for The Washington Post. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived Alabama’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal injection in 2022, is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia on Thursday. If carried out, it […]
