5-4 Supreme Court clears the way for Alabama execution

[70sEraVet]

6. Apparently, the history of executions in Alabama by lethal injection is pretty grotesque

I would call a 13 hour execution, where the victim was coughing and heaving, "not anesthetized at any point during the agonizingly long procedure", an exercise in torture rather than a 21st century execution.
"John Palombi, an attorney with the Federal Defenders Program, said his group advised inmates to request the uncertainties of nitrogen gas over what he called the known "torture" of Alabama's three-drug cocktail. They had a June 30 deadline to make a choice."

https://www.al.com/news/2018/08/lethal_injection_or_gas_alabam.html