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The state of Alabama contributed to our collective anguish on January 25 when it executed a man using the novel experimental technique of nitrogen hypoxia. The world reacted to another horror, a domestic horror, with a collective gasp.

This torturous judicial lynching took place in the Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Alabama, and claimed Kenneth Smith’s life. The fact that Alabama attempted to murder him via lethal injection just over a year ago added to his agony. However, after four hours of stabbing and wounding him, prison staff sought in vain to place an IV line into his hands, arms, and even a vein close to his heart.

This time, Smith was suffocated to death in a torturous process never before performed on a human, with his face covered by a gas mask and both of them tied to a gurney.

In reality, the American Veterinary Medical Association, which was established in 1863 and represents over 99,500 veterinarians in the United States, said in 2020 that the use of nitrogen hypoxia for the euthanasia of all mammals—aside from pigs—was unethical. Since Texas began using lethal injection in 1982, there hasn’t been a new mode of execution in the United States until this legal lynching by nitrogen suffocation.

“After the execution began, Kenny began to violently push against the straps,” claimed independent journalist Lee Hedgepeth. His head started to jerkily bob back and forth. Despite having observed five executions in Alabama, I have never seen a response to one so brutal.

An hour after the execution, Hedgepeth spoke at a press conference organized by opponents of the death penalty. According to several witnesses, Smith’s thrashing fit in response to the oxygen shortage was so intense that the gurney he was strapped into started to tremble.

The other journalists’ and Smith’s spiritual advisor, the Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood, who was there for the execution, responded quickly as well.

The Alabama Department of Corrections predicted that Smith would go into unconsciousness in a matter of seconds and pass away in a matter of minutes prior to his execution. This was a falsehood. They had never utilized nitrogen before, so they had no idea what would happen. It turned out that many of the people who opposed the new manner of execution were right when they said that Smith’s final 22 minutes would be unusually harsh.

“We were lied to by every single entity in Alabama involved with implementing this method of execution,” stated activist Alli Sullivan of Alabama. We were informed that Kenneth would lose consciousness in a matter of seconds and pass away in a matter of minutes. It required twenty-two minutes. We were informed that this would be the most compassionate way of death in history. Kenny convulsed fiercely for a few minutes. The inside of the gas mask started to produce body fluids.

“The State promised the world the most humane method of execution known to man,” said attorney John Palombi in a statement. Palombi represents inmates in Alabama and had requested execution by nitrogen hypoxia. Rather, before passing away, Mr. Smith raged and writhed. Until an impartial committee has reviewed the events of this evening, no more executions by these means should occur.

In response to Alabama’s assertion that nitrogen hypoxia would be humane, Maya Foa, joint executive director of the human rights organization Reprieve, reportedly told the New York Times that “lethal injection had also been called ‘humane,’ but has since been compared by federal judges to being waterboarded or burned at the stake.” States that carry out executions are continuously seeking for methods to portray them as compassionate and contemporary rather than cruel and violent.

Global organizations like Amnesty International, the European Union, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights all expressed their disapproval of the execution. At a U.N. briefing in Geneva, U.N. Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani stated, “He was writhing and clearly suffering.” “Let’s just abolish the death penalty instead of searching for new, unproven ways to execute people. This is out of date and doesn’t belong in the twenty-first century.

In a statement, the European Union’s diplomatic service said, “Leading experts believe that this method is an exceptionally harsh and unusual punishment.” The death sentence is said to violate a person’s right to life and to not deter crime, according to the 27-nation EU and the U.N. rights office, which is located in Geneva.