2022 International Methods of Execution
The U.S. federal government used lethal injection exclusively during the ........Trump administration,...... ending a 17-year moratorium on the federal death penalty. The Department of Justice issued a rule in Nov. 2020 ......allowing federal executions to be carried out “in any manner consistent with federal law,” including electrocution, lethal gas, and firing squad.
Nitrogen hypoxia is a relatively new method of execution and only authorized for use by Alabama, Mississippi, and Oklahoma. The method entails a prisoner only inhaling nitrogen, which deprives them of oxygen and causes death. Alabama carried out the nation’s first execution using nitrogen hypoxia on Jan. 25, 2024.
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