US state of Alabama carries out third execution by nitrogen gas

Carey Grayson was executed utilizing arguable method aft being convicted of nan 1994 execution of a hitchhiker.

A man convicted of murdering a hitchhiker 30 years agone has go nan 3rd personification successful nan United States to beryllium executed by nitrogen gas.

Carey Grayson, 50, was executed successful Alabama connected Thursday aft nan US Supreme Court declined a petition for a enactment connected nan grounds that asphyxiation by nitrogen state constitutes sadistic and different punishment.

Grayson was sentenced to decease complete nan 1994 torture, bludgeoning and mutilation of Vickie Lynn Deblieux, a hitchhiker who was travelling to her mother’s location successful Louisiana.

Deblieux’s mutilated assemblage was recovered pinch 180 stab wounds, 1 of her lungs removed and her fingers and thumbs trim off.

“Tonight, justness has been served,” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said successful a statement.

Alabama has executed 3 decease statement inmates by nitrogen state this twelvemonth and is nan only US authorities to person employed nan arguable method.

While Alabama officials person described nitrogen asphyxiation arsenic nan astir painless and humane method of execution, critics person likened nan believe to torture.

During his execution, Grayson shook his caput from broadside to side, pulled against his gurney restraints and gasped for respective minutes earlier being pronounced dead, according to US media reports.

Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner John Q Hamm said aft nan execution that Grayson’s movements appeared to person been “for show”.

A group of United Nations experts connected Thursday called for a prohibition connected execution by nitrogen gas, saying it violates world law.

“We emphasise that nan prohibition connected torture aliases to cruel, inhuman aliases degrading curen aliases reward is absolute, ne'er acceptable and not dependant connected alternatives,” nan experts said successful a connection released by nan Office of nan UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Out of 50 US states, 21, including Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia, let nan decease penalty.

So acold this year, US authorities person executed 22 people.

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