Looming new US execution method could be torture: UN

Kenneth Eugene Smith, who has been on death row for more than three decades and who has been subjected to a prior execution attempt, is scheduled to be put to death on January 25.

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Prisoners at the Limestone County Correctional Facility participating in the Chain-Gang program walk to their work detail crushing rocks outside the prison August 21, 1995. (AFP)
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The UN on Tuesday called for US state Alabama to abandon plans to execute a man using the "untested" method of suffocation with nitrogen gas, warning it could

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