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Alabama has offered other US states planning to carry out nitrogen gas executions<\/a> assistance, and at the same time promised that more asphyxiation executions<\/a> will take place, Reuters<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Human rights groups have called this method cruel and torturous – the latest effort, like lethal injection, to hide the brutal reality of the death penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reprieve’s executive director Maya Foa said: “The whole purpose of these methods is to hide pain. How many more prisoners must die agonising deaths before we see executions for what they really are: the state violently taking a human life?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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