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January 17, 2023

Oklahoma Carries Out First of 11 Executions Set for 2023
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Oklahoma has carried out the first of what prison officials say will be
11 executions this year. Scott Eizember was pronounced dead at 10:15
a.m. local time last Thursday, after authorities at the Oklahoma State
Penitentiary strapped him to a gurney and injected him with a lethal
cocktail of three drugs. Eizember is the eighth death row prisoner to be
killed since Oklahoma resumed capital punishment in late 2021 after a
six-year moratorium.

His killing came as one of Alabama's largest suppliers of packaged gas
said it will refuse to supply nitrogen to state gas chambers. A
spokesperson for the company Airgas said in a statement,
"Notwithstanding the philosophical and intellectual debate of the death
penalty itself, supplying nitrogen for the purpose of human execution is
not consistent with our company values."


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