.ON JANUARY 25TH Kenneth Eugene Johnson ended up being the 1st person anywhere to be put to death through nitrogen hypoxia. He was founded guilty in 1989 of murdering Elizabeth Sennett, the wife of a minister from Alabama, on her spouse's orders. The state had 1st tried to execute him, by lethal treatment, in November 2022, but messed up the technique. Afterwards, Mr Johnson decided on to be nailed to a cross through novel ways. His punishment has actually resulted in shock: Alabama states nitrogen hypoxia is actually a quick, easy death however numerous clinical professionals differ. Some have parallelled it to abuse. Why did Alabama authorise this untested approach?