Third execution of nitrogen-based death row in Alabama – “He tried to breathe for an hour”

A man to whom the death penalty for murder was imposed 30 years ago, a woman hitchhiking in the South of the United States yesterday (21.11. 24) by inhalation of nitrogen, a method used only for the third time worldwide. “Alabama successfully used (method of execution with) hypoxia (due to inhalation) nitrogen for the execution of Cary Grayson, ” State Justice Minister Steve Marshall said in a statement. As in both previous nitrogen inhalation executions, in February and September – both were made in Alabama – UN experts warned against using this method last Wednesday, arguing that it might be a form of “troublement” and that it is clearly “prohibited by international law”. According to reporters present in the execution, Cary Grayson cursed the prison manager when the latter asked him if he had any final words to say. Then, when the gas started flowing into the mask on his face, he shook his head from one side to the other. The 49 – year – old tried to breathe for several minutes before stopping moving, they found themselves. Carey Dale Grayson executed in Alabama in hiker’s murder; 3rd nitrogen gas execution in US — USA TODAY (@USATODAY) The chronicle of the murder was found guilty in 1996 of a horrific murder committed two years earlier with three accomplices, minors at the time. The victim, Vicky Deblier, 37, hitchhiked from Tennessee to go visit her mother at her home in Louisiana. Her body was found full of stab wounds and mutilated. The execution, in Holman’s prison, is the 22nd to which the authorities in the U.S. proceeded from the beginning of the year. In addition to the three with the nitrogen inhalation method, all of the others were made using lethal injectable solutions. The death penalty has been abolished in 23 out of 50 American states. Another six (Arizona, California, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee) apply moratoriums to executions, under decisions of their rulers.