.ON JANUARY 25TH Kenneth Eugene Johnson ended up being the very first person anywhere to become put to death through nitrogen hypoxia. He was actually founded guilty in 1989 of killing Elizabeth Sennett, the other half of a sermonizer coming from Alabama, on her husband’s orders. The state possessed first made an effort to execute him, by dangerous injection, in November 2022, however mishandled the technique.
After that, Mr Johnson opted for to become executed through unfamiliar means. His punishment has created shock: Alabama claims nitrogen hypoxia is a fast, pain-free fatality however a lot of medical professionals disagree. Some have parallelled it to torture.
Why did Alabama authorize this untried approach?