Alabama told a federal judge that it could be ready as soon as next week to use a new, untried execution method called nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence. Nitrogen hypoxia is a proposed execution method in which death would be caused by forcing the inmate to breathe only nitrogen, thereby depriving the person of oxygen needed to maintain bodily functions. Three states have authorized nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method, but no state has used it to carry out an execution.
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Critics have likened the untested method to human experimentation. “It is completely untested,” said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center. No state has publicly released a protocol describing how it would work. While proponents have theorized it would be quick and painless, Dunham noted that states once said the same thing about the electric chair.
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