Israel braces for interim ICJ ruling on South Africa\u2019s Gaza genocide allegation. Plus, Biden pauses carbon \u2018mega bomb\u2019 natural gas exports.<\/p>\n
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Alabama has carried out the first execution of a death row inmate<\/a> in the US using the untried method of nitrogen gas.<\/em><\/p>\n Why did his first execution fail? <\/strong>In November 2022, Smith spent four hours strapped to a gurney while being punctured with needles that couldn\u2019t find a vein to administer the lethal injection. He was later diagnosed with PTSD.<\/p>\n Why was he on death row?<\/strong> Smith was convicted of the 1988 murder-for-hire of a pastor\u2019s wife, Elizabeth Sennett.<\/p>\n What are South Africa\u2019s allegations?<\/strong> Israel\u2019s campaign has led to the \u201cdestruction of Palestinian life\u201d and pushed people toward famine.<\/p>\n What is Israel arguing?<\/strong> That it has a right to defend itself after the 7 October attack that killed 1,400 people, and that it is targeting Hamas, not Palestinian people as a whole.<\/p>\n The ruling is expected at 1pm (7am EST)<\/strong> \u2013 follow on our live blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Israel braces for interim ICJ ruling on South Africa\u2019s Gaza genocide allegation. Plus, Biden pauses carbon \u2018mega bomb\u2019 natural gas exports. Good morning. Alabama has carried out the first execution of a death row inmate in the US using the untried method of nitrogen gas. Why did his first execution fail? In November 2022, Smith … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}