{"id":1466474,"date":"2024-01-26T15:39:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T15:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=895752e32725da854479f53ef11a4291"},"modified":"2024-01-26T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T15:39:33","slug":"after-scotus-rejected-his-final-appeal-alabama-executes-man-with-nitrogen-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/01\/26\/after-scotus-rejected-his-final-appeal-alabama-executes-man-with-nitrogen-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"After SCOTUS Rejected His Final Appeal, Alabama Executes Man With Nitrogen Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama on Thursday night became the first U.S. state to execute a person using nitrogen gas, killing 58-year-old Kenneth Smith by depriving his body of oxygen after the nation&rsquo;s Supreme Court rejected his legal team&rsquo;s last-ditch appeal. The state&rsquo;s notoriously incompetent executioners, who tried and failed to kill Smith via lethal injection in 2022, strapped the condemned man to a gurney and...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/after-scotus-rejected-his-final-appeal-alabama-executes-man-with-nitrogen-gas\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/after-scotus-rejected-his-final-appeal-alabama-executes-man-with-nitrogen-gas\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tonight, Alabama caused humanity to take a step backwards,&#8221; Kenneth Smith said in his final statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6991,1608,4,72702,1206,1369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466475,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466474\/revisions\/1466475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}