Tag: nitrogen
Farming family emigrated from Harmelen to France: ‘They don’t have a nitrogen problem here’
With a truck full of all their belongings, the family left for Gourin, a town in the Brittany region, on June 15. A number of friends of sons Bart (24),…
Kenneth Eugene Smith, sentenced to death, was executed with nitrogen in Alabama
It was the first capital execution using nitrogen in the United States and the world. It took place this Thursday, January 25 in a penitentiary in Alabama, in the south…
US executes man with nitrogen gas – supporters say it’s a humane method of execution, critics say it’s cruel | Foreign countries
The state of Alabama carried out the first execution by nitrogen gas in the United States. The executed person had received the death sentence for murder Kenneth Smith58. He was…
First execution by nitrogen gas in the USA – likened to torture
Smith was sentenced to death in 1988 for a murder of a 45-year-old woman that he carried out on behalf of the woman’s husband. Since then was imprisoned awaiting execution.…
Kenneth Smith executed by nitrogen gas
Updated 03.42 | Published 03.36 share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Kenneth Smith, 58, was executed overnight Friday. Photo: AP The UN’s protests were in vain. During the night of Friday,…
Alabama plans to execute a prisoner with nitrogen gas for the first time | Foreign countries
Nitrogen gas has previously only killed animals in the United States. The UN Human Rights Council condemns the use of the method. The US state of Alabama plans to carry…
The UN “alarmed” by the upcoming execution, with nitrogen, of a convict in the United States
On January 25, Kenneth Eugene Smith must die by means of a ” new method not yet tested on a human, nitrogen hypoxia “, or oxygen deprivation. Carried out at…
Nitrogen continues to delay the widening of the Rhine Bridge
At the end of 2018, both provinces decided to widen the Rhine Bridge from two to four lanes. But for a long time there was a fight about money. The…
Kenneth Smith to be executed by nitrogen in Alabama
fullscreenKenneth Smith. Photo: AP/ Alabama Department Of Corrections Kenneth Smith, 58, was set to be executed in November 2022. But they found no suitable vein. Now he will be killed…
He didn’t die with a poisonous injection, this time they will suffocate him with nitrogen gas! Reaction from the UN to the death sentence in the USA
United Nations (UN) experts described the decision to execute a prisoner in the United States by asphyxiation with nitrogen gas on January 25 as “an untested method of execution that…