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NYC pols urge gunman who killed father and stepson to surrender — or locals to ‘snitch, snitch, snitch’Stepson arrested in brutal shooting of Bronx 80-year-old man while walking with wifeThe Supreme Court of Alabama has authorized state officials to proceed with what would be the first execution of a prisoner in the US using asphyxiation by nitrogen gas.Kenneth Smith, who was convicted of murder in 1996, using a face mask connected to a cylinder of nitrogen intended to deprive him of oxygen.
Smith, 58, is one of only two people alive in the US to have survived an execution attempt after Alabama botched his previously scheduled execution by lethal injection in November when multiple attempts to insert an intravenous line into a vein failed. Smith’s lawyers have said the untested gassing protocol may violate the US Constitution’s ban on “cruel and unusual punishments,” and have argued a second attempt to execute him by any method is unconstitutional.e Alabama Department of Corrections
In a brief order issued on Wednesday, the court, whose justices are all Republicans, said Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, a Republican, must set a date for the state’s Department of Corrections to execute Smith.A spokesperson for Ivey said her office had not yet determined a date. A spokesperson for the Department of Corrections said the department is “prepared to carry out the orders of the court.
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