.ON JANUARY 25TH Kenneth Eugene Smith came to be the very first individual anywhere to be put to death through nitrogen hypoxia. He was actually sentenced in 1989 of killing Elizabeth Sennett, the spouse of a minister from Alabama, on her hubby's orders. The state possessed 1st attempted to execute him, by lethal injection, in Nov 2022, but mishandled the method. Afterwards, Mr Johnson picked to be killed by unfamiliar ways. His punishment has induced indignation: Alabama professes nitrogen hypoxia is a quick, easy fatality however numerous health care professionals differ. Some have parallelled it to torture. Why did Alabama authorise this untried method?