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Man Executed with Heavily Criticized Method in the USA

For the second time, a man has been executed by nitrogen gas in Alabama. The method is controversial. For people sentenced to death, it is now permitted, but veterinarians have deemed it unethical to use on animals.

» Updated: 27 September 2024, 07:58

» Published: 27 September 2024

Man Executed with Heavily Criticized Method in the USA
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59-year-old Alan Eugene Miller was declared dead at 18:38 local time on Thursday at the prison in southern Alabama. He had then shaken and trembled for about two minutes, followed by about six minutes of gasping for breath, reports AP.

In an execution by nitrogen gas, the condemned person dies from asphyxiation when 100 percent nitrogen is introduced into the body through a breathing mask, which leads to oxygen deprivation.

Alan Eugene Miller was sentenced to death for workplace shootings in 1999 where three people he worked with were killed, writes The Guardian.

Five condemned men in five states in the USA have been executed in the last six days, which is an unusually high number.

The first execution by nitrogen gas was also carried out in Alabama, in January this year. The execution was sharply criticized by, among others, the UN's human rights chief Volker Türk, who described the method as torture.

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