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A major gas-mask manufacturer this week said it doesn’t want its products used in nitrogen-gas executions, days before Alabama planned to carry out the country’s second-ever execution using that method.
The state’s execution of Alan Eugene Miller, scheduled for Thursday, will mark the second time this year that Alabama has used the controversial execution method. Nitrogen hypoxia, during which a prisoner is forced to
inhale pure nitrogen gas, came under intense scrutiny in January when the state executed Kenneth Eugene Smith. Smith was made to inhale nitrogen through a gas mask, causing oxygen deprivation.
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