NewsEnglish • 9 months ago

UN experts alarmed by Alabama plan to kill prisoner using untried gas method

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UN experts alarmed by Alabama plan to kill prisoner using untried gas method

www.theguardian.com

NewsEnglish • 9 months ago

Kenneth Smith is scheduled to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia which four UN monitors could amount to torture

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Flying Squid
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7•9 months ago
Or these experts have no expertise on Israel, so they are smart enough not to do that as experts.
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  -2•9 months ago
  I can’t think of a more current hotbed for torture than Israel or Russia at the moment, can you?
  - Flying Squid
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    4•9 months ago
    Only one of the four experts’ area of expertise involved torture.
  - queermunist she/her
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    -6•9 months ago
    How about the United States? 🤔

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