Monday , December 23 2024

Preparations underway in America to kill another accused with nitrogen gas

In Alabama, America, preparations are underway to impose punishment by inhaling nitrogen gas. The first case of use of nitrogen gas for capital punishment in the state had come to light only a month ago and the process was widely criticized for carrying out capital punishment. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall's office on Wednesday asked the Alabama Supreme Court to set a sentencing date for convicted murderer Alan Eugene Miller.

convicted of murdering three people

The Attorney General's Office stated that Miller would be executed by nitrogen hypoxia. Miller, 59, has been convicted of murdering three people in Birmingham in 1999. The request to fix a date for sentencing is being made at a time when different opinions are being expressed in the state regarding giving death penalty in this manner. In fact, on January 25, for the first time, Kenneth Smith was given death sentence by nitrogen gas and the people present there said that Smith kept convulsing and crying for several minutes. Ultimately, he is killed by his partner.

Please stop using nitrogen gas

Attorney General Steve Marshall's office said the method was appropriate and said the state would use nitrogen gas in future executions. He urged other states to consider the method the day after Smith's sentencing, but a lawsuit filed by another death row inmate calls for an end to the use of nitrogen gas. It was told that the people present at the site said that it was like an experiment on humans and it cannot be considered successful. “The results of the first human experiment have now come to light and show that nitrogen gas is neither a faster asphyxiating nor a painless process, but a more painful and painful one,” the petition said.