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Alabama execution 'may amount to torture' says UN rights chief / 34GV9HF
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The United Nations' human rights chief Volker Turk says he deeply regretted the execution by Alabama of Kenneth Eugene Smith using nitrogen gas. "This novel and untested method of suffocation by nitrogen gas may amount to torture, or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" explains the spokeswoman of the Human Rights commissioner. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES