.ON JANUARY 25TH Kenneth Eugene Johnson ended up being the very first person anywhere to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia. He was founded guilty in 1989 of slaughtering Elizabeth Sennett, the wife of a minister coming from Alabama, on her hubby's orders. The condition possessed 1st made an effort to execute him, through fatal treatment, in November 2022, yet messed up the technique. After that, Mr Smith picked to be nailed to a cross by novel methods. His execution has induced indignation: Alabama professes nitrogen hypoxia is a simple, painless fatality yet lots of health care professionals disagree. Some have parallelled it to abuse. Why did Alabama authorize this unproved approach?