2024-01-24 12:16:55
This decision by the Alabama administration comes on the heels of a failed attempt to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith by lethal injection in 2022, and if actually carried out, it would make Alabama the first state to use nitrogen gas for capital punishment. The state claims that nitrogen hypoxia, which causes death by depriving the body of oxygen, will cause unconsciousness and rapid death, but this method has so far been criticized for its untested nature.
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Hypoxia is a pathological state of lack of oxygen in the body’s cells, and it can be caused by a large number of factors such as hypoxemia, but also by other factors: inaccessibility of oxygen, carbon monoxide poisoning, damage to the diffusion or reperfusion system, altitude sickness so there are no red blood cells that can transport Not enough oxygen to the cells of the body and causes death.
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