In this regard, it has also announced a detailed procedure. In America, the death sentence of prisoners is being carried out by means of poison injection. In this case, following the states of Oklahoma and Mississippi, the state of Alabama also decided to carry out the punishment by nitrogen hypoxia in 2018. But so far, the punishment has not been carried out in any state.
In this manner, no mechanism has been developed regarding how to carry out the punishment. Normally, the air we breathe contains 78 percent nitrogen. Breathing nitrogen along with oxygen does not cause harm. At the same time, death occurs when breathing 100 percent nitrogen without oxygen.This is a form of nitrogen hypoxia. The prisoner is only injected with nitrogen and executed.
Alan Miller from Alabama is scheduled to be executed on the 22nd. He has filed a lawsuit against being killed by lethal injection. During the trial of this case, the state government of Alabama has announced that he will be executed by nitrogen hypoxia within the next week. It is said that the instructions will be announced soon.