.ON JANUARY 25TH Kenneth Eugene Smith became the 1st individual anywhere to become put to death by nitrogen hypoxia. He was actually founded guilty in 1989 of slaughtering Elizabeth Sennett, the partner of a minister coming from Alabama, on her spouse's orders. The condition possessed 1st tried to execute him, by lethal injection, in Nov 2022, but mishandled the method. After that, Mr Johnson opted for to be nailed to a cross by novel methods. His punishment has actually triggered resentment: Alabama claims nitrogen hypoxia is a quick, easy death but numerous clinical professionals differ. Some have parallelled it to torture. Why carried out Alabama authorize this unproved method?