@article{ref1,
title="Use of nitrogen in US execution may constitute torture, warns human rights agency",
journal="BMJ",
year="2024",
author="Wise, Jacqui",
volume="384",
number="",
pages="q145-q145",
abstract="The UN human rights office has called on authorities in the US state of Alabama to halt the planned execution of a man by nitrogen hypoxia saying the &quot;novel and untested method&quot; could amount to torture under international human rights law.1  Kenneth Eugene Smith, aged 57, was convicted for a murder for hire committed in 1988. He is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia on 25 January. He survived a botched attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2022 after staff failed to establish a proper intravenous line.   Nitrogen gas has never been used in the US to execute a human. The method would involve giving the prisoner pure nitrogen through a mask for up …<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0959-535X",
doi="10.1136/bmj.q145",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q145"
}