“Shoot me, hang me, just please don’t gas me.” That’s what the desperately grim pleas for mercy from the condemned sound like these days in Alabama as reported August 19 by Emily Mae Czachor for CBS News in her article, “Alabama inmate set to die by nitrogen gas asks for firing squad, hanging to avoid ‘conscious suffocation.’”

Alabama has savagely gas-tortured five human beings to death since early 2024 — and a 6th nitrogen-gassing is planned in the state on September 25, and a 7th on October 23. In continued legal challenges, lawyers for one of the men next up to be gassed argue what should be obvious by now following atrocity after atrocity committed when checkered executioners have forced prisoners to don a bespoke gas mask and breathe pure nitrogen: it’s a manifestly cruel and unu

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