Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach is asking lawmakers to broaden the method for execution to include a suffocating gas, which was just used for the first time in Alabama.
Kobach's top deputy, Dan Burrows, introduced a bill Thursday that would add hypoxia - a medical term for insufficient oxygen - to lethal injection as a form of execution.
Alabama just became the first state to use hypoxia, executing an inmate who was put to death by inhaling nitrogen. It leads to death within minutes because of lack of . . .
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