Alabama has long been a leader when it comes to exports. Recently, Jerry Underwood for madeinalabama.com reported that “Alabama exports total $26.8 billion in 2024, reaching over 200 countries.” Underwood noted that Alabama Commerce Secretary Ellen McNair said Alabamians are “reinforcing Alabama’s reputation as a leader in innovation and high-quality production.”
Unfortunately, this hard-earned reputation is primed to be irreparably sullied by Louisiana’s wholesale adoption — maybe as early as later this month — of what I’ve coined elsewhere as “ Alabama’s gruesome and gasping nitrogen-gassing executions ”—leading to “ atrocity after atrocity ” as I documented in “ Alabama-torture outrage muted and unconscionably insufficient ,” “ Alabama arrogantly asphyxiates another condemned man ,” “ Alabama gas-tortured a 3rd man to death ,” “ Gassing humans to death is wrong ,” “ Alabama’s justice system treats human beings like hogs ,” and, in other essays too (like “ Leadership abdication and Alabama’s next execution ,” “ Alabama’s pro-gassing federal judge’s latest nonsensical ruling ,” “ Mengele-like logic underpins Alabama’s plan to gas a man to death ,” “ 5 reasons why Alabama shouldn’t gas human beings to death ,” and “ An Abomination in Alabama ”).
Writing for “ louisianafirstnews.com ,” Keymonte Avery and Emma Simmons observed that Louisiana’s recently released — but heavily redacted — nitrogen-gassing execution protocol “mirrors Alabama’s, which became the first state to use nitrogen hypoxia in 2024. Alabama has carried out four nitrogen executions, all of which drew criticism for the prolonged gasping and shaking observed in the inmates.”…