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Newsday: 25/01/2024 07:06 GMT : US state of Alabama to use controversial new method of execution

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25/01/2024 07:06 GMT 

25/01/2024 07:06 GMT : US state of Alabama to use controversial new method of execution

US state of Alabama to use controversial new method of execution

BBC World Service - Newsday, US state of Alabama to use controversial new method of execution

The UN says the untested method of nitrogen gas suffocation could amount to torture

The UN says the untested method of nitrogen gas suffocation could amount to torture.

In the US state of Alabama the authorities will attempt to execute a convict by smothering him with nitrogen gas after the Supreme Court rejected a request to have the procedure blocked.

Radical economic reforms by Argentinian President Javier Milei have brought strikes and demonstrations on the streets - he says he wants to correct years of spending by previous left wing governments, and many back the populist leader.

And we hear about a young Moroccan boy who has had a congenital hearing defect cured using gene therapy treatment in the United States.

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