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.

“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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