.ON JANUARY 25TH Kenneth Eugene Johnson came to be the initial individual anywhere to be executed through nitrogen hypoxia. He was actually pronounced guilty in 1989 of murdering Elizabeth Sennett, the other half of a sermonizer from Alabama, on her spouse's orders. The condition possessed initial made an effort to execute him, through fatal injection, in November 2022, yet bungled the procedure. After that, Mr Johnson decided on to be put to death by unfamiliar methods. His execution has caused indignation: Alabama professes nitrogen hypoxia is a quick, pain-free fatality but many health care professionals differ. Some have parallelled it to abuse. Why did Alabama authorise this unproved method?