FIRING SQUADS, ELECTRIC CHAIR AND GAS CHAMBER: WASHINGTON RESURRECTS 19TH-CENTURY EXECUTION METHODSBLIND SPOTS

The 48-page memo describes pentobarbital as the 'gold standard' — clinical language for an act of death

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The UN condemns nitrogen hypoxia as cruel and inhumane — two states have already used it

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Russia maintains a moratorium on executions since 1996 — a fact RT deploys to invert the moral relationship with the US

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RT notes the US is the only country in the Americas actively executing — isolation that serves Russia's narrative

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Vanguard reprints the AFP dispatch without editorial addition — Nigeria does not treat the subject as controversial

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