A man convicted in the last sentence was executed in Alabama on Tuesday by the method of suffering a nitrogen inhalation, which is strongly criticized by the UN, they consider her consider her to consider her. form of ‘torture’– While the second was also expected to be executed last night with deadly injectable chemicals in Florida.

In total it was scheduled to become four executions This week in the US, three using fatal injectable chemicals, but one of them, in Oklahoma, suspended. The State Attorney General called for the removal of suspension.

THE Gregory Hunt, 65 years old, executed in Alabama last night By the method of causing suffocation through nitrogen inhalationwhich was first used worldwide in this state in 2024. This is the fifth execution so far in the state of the American South.

He had been sentenced to death for the murder of Karen Lane, 32, with whom they had been related for a month.

In Florida, the Anthony Weinrait54 years old, was also expected to be executed last night.

He was sentenced to death in 1994 for the rape and murder of Carmen Gayhard, 23 -year -old, who kidnapped a supermarket parking lot with his accomplice, Richard Hamilton. The two men had escaped a prison in North Carolina a few days earlier. Also, condemned to the last sentence, Richard Hamilton died in prison in 2023.

In Oklahoma, it was foreseen tomorrow Thursday to kill the John Hanson61 years old, for the 1999 murder of Mary Agnes Bowles, a 77 -year -old retired. His execution was suspended by a decision of the Justice. The suspension has been requested.

Still, in South Carolina, the Steven Stank, 57 years old, he is expected to be killed tomorrow Friday. He was sentenced to death in 2005 by his friend Henry Turner, 74, and Laura King’s 43 -year -old girlfriend, as well as the rape of the second victim’s teenage daughter.

In the US, 19 executions have been made in the US since the beginning of the year. The 15 were injectable fatal chemicals, two – in Alabama and Louisiana – with suffocation due to nitrogen inhalation, and two more executive excerpts in South Carolina; before this year, this method had been used in the country since 2010.

The death penalty has been removed to 23 of the 50 US states. In the other three – California, Oregon, Pennsylvania – a moratorium is applied to its implementation by decisions by their rulers.