Booking photo of Kenneth Smith. The Alabama inmate is in line to become the first person executed in the U.S. by breathing in pure nitrogen. Courtesy of of Alabama Dept of Corrections ...

Reporting of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser use has been compulsory for operators of dairy farms with 20 hectares or more of grazed land since July 2022. Many operators have reported at least one ...

The air we breathe is actually 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen, with trace amounts of other gases. The percentages change a bit if you factor in water vapor, but you get the picture -- it’s a lot of ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama has scheduled a September execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk during a 1997 robbery. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey set a ...

FILE - This Oct. 9, 2014, file photo shows the gurney in the the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. An execution scheduled Thursday, Jan. 24, 2024 in Alabama ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is seeking to put a second inmate to death using nitrogen gas, a move that comes a month after the state carried out the first execution using the controversial new ...

A Nebraska lawmaker has introduced a bill to add asphyxiation by nitrogen to the state’s method of carrying out the death penalty, even as Alabama officials await a judge’s ruling on a request ...

Pure nitrogen gas was then pumped into it, causing him to die from lack of oxygen. The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Smith's execution to proceed last month. The lawsuit contends that media and witness ...

Under the proposed execution method of nitrogen hypoxia, an inmate would be forced to breathe only nitrogen, depriving them of oxygen needed to maintain bodily functions and causing them to die.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama is preparing to use a new method of execution: nitrogen gas. Kenneth Eugene Smith, who survived the state’s previous attempt to put him to death by lethal ...

FILE - This undated photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preacher's wife.