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Alabama executes Kenneth Smith with nitrogen gas
Nitrogen hypoxia was approved as an alternative method of execution because the drugs used in lethal injections have become more difficult to find.
A convicted murderer in the United States has become the first person to be executed by suffocation with nitrogen gas.
The International Court of Justice could issue emergency measures today ordering Israel to halt its military operations in Gaza.
And Igor Girkin, a prominent Russian pro-war blogger who criticised President Vladimir Putin’s handling of the war on Ukraine, has been found guilty on extremism charges and sentenced to four years in prison.
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