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Louisiana death row inmate challenges nitrogen gas

Louisiana’s Jewish community protests nitrogen gas death row executions, seeing a link to ‘the decimation of our people’

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, such a method echoes the Holocaust.

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Judge blocks Louisiana's 1st nitrogen gas execution over possible 'pain and terror'

Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

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Louisiana execution halted as nitrogen gas method challenged

The man poised to become the first Louisiana death row inmate executed in 15 years scored a significant win Tuesday as he challenges the state's plan to use nitrogen hypoxia to carry out his death sentence.

Texas, on death row and appellate court

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Texas execution of 'desert killer,' on death row for 30 years, blocked by court

David Wood, 67, was sentenced to death in 1992 for the killing of six woman and girls in El Paso, Texas. He has spent nearly 33 years on death row for the crimes.

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Federal appellate court vacates Texas death row inmate’s murder conviction

State prosecutors withheld evidence favorable to Brittany Marlow Holberg during her 1998 murder trial that resulted in her being sentenced to death, a federal appellate court panel ruled Friday.

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Texas court delays execution of man on death row for 32 years, days before he was set to die

A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and young women found buried in the desert near El Paso.

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New brief filed by former prosecutors urges new trial for Alabama death row inmate

Johnson has been on death row since 1998 when he was convicted of capital murder for the death of Jefferson County Deputy ...

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Convicted murderer, death row inmate Nikko Jenkins pens handwritten motion to set execution date

A Nebraska death row inmate penned a motion expressing his wishes to dismiss past conviction appeals and to set an execution date.

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Death-row inmate deserves new trial, ex-U.S. Senator, former Alabama AG urge in ‘unusual’ request

In a brief filed Wednesday, 10 former Alabama prosecutors signed on asking a Jefferson County judge to grant a new trial in the 1995 case.

Idaho becomes first state to prefer death by firing squad for executions

The governor’s action comes less than a week after Brad Sigmon, 67, of South Carolina, was executed by way of a firing squad ...

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Suge Knight Questions Snoop Dogg Owning Death Row Records: ‘Show Me The Paperwork’

Former Death Row Records owner Suge Knight questions Snoop Dogg's ownership of the recording label he currently owns.

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The Death Penalty as Seen by Glenn Ford

Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row.

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