Alabama pushes for first execution by nitrogen hypoxia

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Alabama’s attorney general has asked the state Supreme Court to set the execution date of a man to be put to death by nitrogen hypoxia after an effort to carry out his sentence by lethal injection was called off following last-minute appeals and problems inserting an IV line. 

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