The United Nations opposes the execution of a prisoner in America by inhaling nitrogen gas

, the spokesman of the Secretary General of the United Nations announced his opposition to the plan to execute a prisoner in the state of Alabama by inhaling pure nitrogen gas.

based on This report is the first time in the history of America that a prisoner in the state of Alabama is going to be executed by nitrogen gas on January 25.

He stated that we stand against any type of execution.

Kenneth Smith has been found guilty of murdering a woman in 1988. He, along with another person, received a sum of one thousand dollars to kill this woman. His accomplice was executed in 2010. Previously, measures were taken to execute Smith by injecting a lethal substance, but he survived this injection.

Smith’s lawyers stated that this method of execution It is very cruel and brutal. State officials use their criminals to test new execution methods.

Although execution by nitrogen gas is legal in 3 US states, So far, no criminal in America has been executed by this method. Alabama officials approved this method in 2018 only because of a shortage of drugs used in lethal injections to execute criminals.

In this process, It is considered economical from a financial point of view, and a mask and a nitrogen tank are used, after inhaling the gas, the prisoner becomes unconscious within a few seconds while gradually suffocating.

A few years ago, the state of Oklahoma legalized the use of nitrogen gas to execute the death sentence following the problems caused by the execution of the death sentence through the injection of poisonous gas.

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