The American judge authorized the execution by a new method

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, a federal judge in America has issued the necessary green light to carry out the first death sentence using nitrogen gas.

This sentence is supposed to be executed this month in the state of Alabama. The defendant’s lawyers say that the state of Alabama is going to use their client as a test case.

“Kenneth Eugene Smith”, who is 58 years old, in 1988 with the complicity of another criminal, the wife of a preacher. killed a religious man in exchange for $1,000 for each.

On Wednesday, US Judge Justin Hofaker refused to stay the execution of Smith. The sentence is currently scheduled to be carried out on January 25.

In a hearing held before the judge announced the decision, the Alabama Attorney General said about the new way of carrying out the death penalty. This method will cause “a person to become unconscious in a few seconds and die in a few minutes.”

Alabama state officials have pointed to industrial accidents in which people died to confirm these statements. who are exposed to a high concentration of nitrogen gas will die within a short time.

Smith’s legal team has said, however, that the new method is full of unknowns and its implementation may violate the law. It is essential to prohibit cruel and unusual punishments.

Nitrogen gas, which makes up 78% of the air that humans breathe, causes death at high concentration levels. Two other US states, Mississippi and Oklahoma, have also allowed execution by nitrogen.

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