Alabama inmate waiting to hear court ruling on scheduled nitrogen gas execution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : If Smith's execution by nitrogen hypoxia is carried out, it will be the first new execution method used in the United States since lethal injection was first used in 1982.
44% : Some states are looking for new ways to execute inmates because the drugs used in lethal injections, the most common execution method in the United States, are increasingly difficult to find.
44% : Critics of the untested method say the state can't predict what will happen and what Smith will feel after the warden switches on the gas is unknown.Alabama previously tried to execute Smith by lethal injection in 2022 but called it off before the drugs were administered because authorities were unable to connect the two intravenous lines to his veins.
40% : Her husband, Charles Sennett Sr., killed himself when the investigation focused on him as a suspect, according to court documents.

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