First nitrogen execution was a ‘botched’ human experiment, Alabama lawsuit alleges

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama death row inmate filed a lawsuit Thursday that challenges the constitutionality of nitrogen gas executions, arguing that the first person in the nation put to death by that method shook violently for several minutes in “a human experiment that officials botched miserably.”The lawsuit filed in federal court in Alabama alleges the January execution of Kenneth