Nitrogen hypoxia is the gaseous canister version of a knee on the neck. US states that plan to use it must be stopped.
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Joel Zivot is a practicing physician in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Zivot is a recognized expe... rt against the use of lethal injection and the tools of medicine for use in the death penalty.
Nitrogen hypoxia is the gaseous canister version of a knee on the neck. US states that plan to use it must be stopped.
An apparently botched execution in Alabama raises questions about the use of medicine as an arm of state power.