.ON JANUARY 25TH Kenneth Eugene Johnson came to be the first individual anywhere to be put to death through nitrogen hypoxia. He was actually sentenced in 1989 of killing Elizabeth Sennett, the spouse of a minister coming from Alabama, on her husband's orders. The condition possessed very first attempted to execute him, by fatal treatment, in Nov 2022, however bungled the method. After that, Mr Smith picked to be nailed to a cross by unfamiliar methods. His execution has created indignation: Alabama declares nitrogen hypoxia is actually a quick, painless death but a lot of health care specialists disagree. Some have parallelled it to abuse. Why did Alabama authorise this untried technique?