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Washington (AFP) - Lawmakers in Alabama passed legislation Thursday to protect health workers at IVF clinics from legal liability after the southern US state's supreme court ruled frozen embryos are children, in an issue that has threatened to become an election flashpoint. Bills "to provide civil and criminal immunity" to people and entities providing such care in case an embryo is damaged or destroyed cleared both Republican-controlled chambers, the legislature's official webpage showed. The conservative state's Republican governor, Kay Ivey, who has also voiced support for protecting in vit...
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Washington (AFP) - An Alabama university temporarily halted in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments on Wednesday after the high court in the southern US state ruled that frozen embryos outside the womb are children. The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) said it had paused IVF treatments "as it evaluates the Alabama Supreme Court's decision that a cryopreserved embryo is a human being." "We are saddened that this will impact our patients' attempt to have a baby through IVF," the university said in a statement. "But we must evaluate the potential that our patients and our physicians coul...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House said Friday it was "deeply troubled" by the first-ever execution in the United States using nitrogen gas, an untested method which also drew condemnation from the United Nations and European Union. The southern state of Alabama put Kenneth Smith, a 58-year-old convicted murderer, to death on Thursday by pumping nitrogen gas into a facemask, causing him to suffocate. "The use of nitrogen gas -- it is troubling to us," White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters. "We are deeply troubled by it." Recent executions in the United States have been carr...
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Washington (AFP) - The first execution using nitrogen gas in the United States has put the spotlight on the country's use of capital punishment. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, convicted of a 1988 murder-for-hire, was put to death in the southern state of Alabama on Thursday. Executions in the United States are generally carried out by lethal injection, but Smith was the first person to be executed using nitrogen gas. Here are key facts about the death penalty in the United States: Number of US executions decliningThere were 24 executions in the United States in 2023, six more than in 2022. While mo...
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Washington (AFP) - A convicted murderer is scheduled to be executed in the southern US state of Alabama this week using nitrogen gas, a novel method that the United Nations has likened to "torture." Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, has been on Death Row for more than three decades after being convicted in 1989 of a murder-for-hire. Smith is to be put to death at Holman Prison in Atmore, Alabama, during a 30-hour window beginning at 1:00 am Eastern Time (0600 GMT) on Thursday. He is to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia, a method which has not been used before in the United States. There were 24 executio...
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Washington (AFP) - A US federal court threw out Alabama's newly redrawn electoral map Tuesday, saying it continues to deny fair political representation to Black Americans in violation of a Supreme Court ruling. A three-judge panel said the Alabama legislature's new map persisted in illegally watering down the voting power of African American citizens, effectively minimizing their ability to elect Black representatives to Congress. It was the latest ruling in a battle across several states over gerrymandering, the manipulation of electoral maps to minimize minorities' voting power. While one o...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a congressional electoral map drawn in the southern state of Alabama discriminated against Black voters. The 5-4 decision by the conservative-majority court is a surprise victory for the Voting Rights Act, which was passed by Congress during the civil rights movement in 1965 to prevent racial discrimination against minorities in elections. The Alabama case concerns a map that was redrawn in 2021 by Alabama's Republican majority legislature to allocate seats in the US House of Representatives. Under the map, Black voters -- who repr...
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Washington (AFP) - US law enforcement officials are pleading for residents to come forward with information on a weekend shooting that devastated a small Alabama town, leaving four people dead and 23 injured at a teen's birthday party. By Monday morning, 36 hours after the tragedy, state and local officials had yet to release any details about a possible suspect or suspects, or the motive for the shooting. Authorities have not said whether they have detained any suspects or if the shooters remain at large or died in the Saturday night gunfire that shattered the calm of Dadeville, a tight-knit ...
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Washington (AFP) - At least four people were killed and more than 20 others injured, mostly teens, in a Saturday night shooting at a birthday party in Alabama, officials said, in the latest spasm of American gun mass violence. Local news reports said the shooting occurred at a Sweet 16 party at a dance studio in Dadeville, a small town northeast of the state capital Montgomery. "There were four lives tragically lost in this incident, and there's been a multitude of injuries," Sergeant Jeremy Burkett, a spokesman for the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA), told reporters Sunday. He specified...
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Washington (AFP) - A man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend was executed in the southern US state of Alabama on Thursday despite objections from the victim's family. Joe Nathan James, 49, was sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1994 murder of 26-year-old Faith Hall. James's time of death was 9:27 pm (0127 GMT Friday) according to the Alabama Attorney General's office. He had been scheduled to be executed via lethal injection. James had petitioned the US Supreme Court to stay his execution "pursuant to the wishes of the surviving members of the family of the victim." "The victims and their...
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