Last month, President Trump's Department of Justice announced that it was bringing back firing squads and seeking to return to the use of electrocution and lethal gas for executions. Meanwhile, The state of Alabama became the first government in the world to carry out executions by nitrogen suffocation. an untested and inhumane death penalty method. The Supreme Court has declined to intervene over the dissent of Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson. (04:37–04:46)
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Asserts that Alabama is the first government to execute by nitrogen suffocation.
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