UN Calls on Alabama To Halt New Execution Method, Citing Chance of ‘Painful and Humiliating Death’

The future of an Alabama inmate has become the symbol of a battle over the so-called right way to kill a convict.

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Alabama's lethal injection chamber at the Holman Correctional Facility at Atmore, Alabama. AP/Dave Martin

“Cruel and unusual” is how critics describe a new, untested method of criminal execution, nitrogen gas, which is set to be administered for the first time in America later this month.  

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