Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
UNITED NATIONS, 4th Jan. UN independent human rights experts Morris Tidball Binz on Wednesday that the imminent execution of a man on death row in the United States using the untested method of inhaling pure nitrogen must be stopped.
OHCHR noted in a press release issued in Geneva noted Kenneth Eugene Smith was convicted of murder in 1988 and sentenced to death. He is scheduled to be executed on 25 January in Alabama.
The agency said that the authorities failed in their attempt to execute Mr. Smith in November 2022 by lethal injection.
UN Special Rapporteur Morris Tidball Binz and other rights experts expressed concern that this first attempt at nitrogen asphyxiation “would result in a painful and humiliating death”.
They added that punishments which cause unnecessary severe pain or suffering “likely violate the Convention against Torture, to which the United States is a party”.
