.ON JANUARY 25TH Kenneth Eugene Johnson became the initial individual anywhere to become executed through nitrogen hypoxia. He was actually sentenced in 1989 of slaughtering Elizabeth Sennett, the spouse of a preacher from Alabama, on her other half's orders. The state possessed very first made an effort to execute him, by lethal injection, in November 2022, but messed up the technique. Afterwards, Mr Johnson selected to be executed by unique means. His execution has created flare-up: Alabama asserts nitrogen hypoxia is a quick, painless fatality however several medical pros differ. Some have actually parallelled it to torture. Why did Alabama authorize this untested approach?