Sweet Southern Air

Like many religious institutions, the Christian state of Alabama has nothing against scientific experimentation in its proper place, and the state supreme court has duly obliged with an opportunity. After a couple of failed attempts to execute convicts by lethal injection, the court has authorised correctional personnel to try killing someone by suffocation instead. The method, whereby the beneficiary of justice is forced to breathe nitrogen without oxygen, has not been tried before; but fans have "theorised" that it will be painless. At least the experiment should lay to rest a lawsuit that the scheduled guinea pig is pursuing over the lethal injection procedure, which the Christian state of Alabama attempted last year and which the divine will somehow neglected to help accomplish, having presumably taken into account the fact that the condemned carried out his murder at the behest of a pastor.