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Lengthy Execution by Nitrogen Gas in Alabama Renews Concerns Over Method  The New York Times Tortured to Death in Alabama  The Atlantic Liberal Supreme Court justices decry nitrogen hypoxia executions: ‘Excruciating suffocation’  The Hill Alabama to execute man for 1993 murder in state’s latest nitrogen gas execution  Politico Court turns down man’s request to die by firing squad  SCOTUSblog Source link

The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices on Thursday laid out a remarkable critique of nitrogen hypoxia executions, asserting that the new form of capital punishment causes “psychological terror” and “excruciating suffocation” in the condemned and likely violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s senior liberal, encouraged Americans to start a stopwatch on …

Alabama to execute man for 1993 murder in state’s latest nitrogen gas execution  Politico Supreme Court liberals decry ‘excruciating suffocation’ in nitrogen hypoxia executions  CNN Alabama executes killer with nitrogen gas amid objections over ‘gratuitous suffering’  USA Today Alabama executes man on death row by controversial nitrogen gas method  The Guardian Court turns down man’s request to die by firing squad  SCOTUSblog Source link

An Alabama death row inmate set to die Thursday asked the state’s governor to meet with him “before an innocent man is executed.” Anthony Boyd, 53, is scheduled to be executed Thursday evening by nitrogen gas at the William C. Holman Correctional Facility. A jury convicted Boyd of capital murder for the 1993 burning death of Gregory Huguley in Talladega …

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An Alabama man convicted of killing a woman during a 1997 gas station robbery was put to death Thursday after apologizing to his victim’s family and pleas from the woman’s son to spare his life.  Geoffrey Todd West, 50, was executed at William C. Holman Correctional Facility by nitrogen gas, a method Alabama began using last year. It was one …

Some of the most familiar atoms in the air above our heads appear to vanish when scientists audit Earth’s interior. Geochemists have spent decades tracing nitrogen’s trail yet always come up billions of tons short. Earth’s rocky shell, the bulk silicate Earth (BSE), holds only one to five parts per million of nitrogen, a tally wildly below the cargo delivered …