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Use of nitrogen in US execution may constitute torture, warns human rights agency

Wise, Jacqui

BMJ (Online), 2024-01, Vol.384, p.q145-q145 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Use of nitrogen in US execution may constitute torture, warns human rights agency
Autor: Wise, Jacqui
Assuntos: Capital punishment ; Human Rights ; Human Rights Abuses ; Humans ; Hypoxia ; News ; Nitrogen ; Torture
É parte de: BMJ (Online), 2024-01, Vol.384, p.q145-q145
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Descrição: The UN human rights office has called on authorities in the US state of Alabama to halt the planned execution of a man by nitrogen hypoxia saying the “novel and untested method” could amount to torture under international human rights law.1 Kenneth Eugene Smith, aged 57, was convicted for a murder for hire committed in 1988. Alabama’s protocol for execution by nitrogen asphyxiation makes no provision for sedation before execution even though the American Veterinary Medical Association recommends giving large animals a sedative when being euthanised in this way. Ravina Shamdasani, spokesperson for the UN high commissioner for human rights, told a press conference on 16 January that she was “alarmed” by the imminent execution.
Editor: England: British Medical Journal Publishing Group
Idioma: Inglês

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