.ON JANUARY 25TH Kenneth Eugene Johnson became the 1st person anywhere to become put to death by nitrogen hypoxia. He was actually convicted in 1989 of murdering Elizabeth Sennett, the other half of a sermonizer from Alabama, on her partner's orders. The condition had very first tried to execute him, through dangerous injection, in November 2022, however bungled the technique. Afterwards, Mr Johnson selected to be nailed to a cross through unfamiliar methods. His execution has caused indignation: Alabama states nitrogen hypoxia is actually a fast, easy fatality but lots of medical specialists disagree. Some have actually parallelled it to torment. Why performed Alabama authorise this untried technique?