Appeals court says Louisiana can carry out the state’s first nitrogen gas execution next week
Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a ...
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Louisiana's nitrogen gas execution back on for next week, federal appeals court rules
"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on ...
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, ...
Federal judge halts Louisiana's first nitrogen gas execution, state says it will appeal
A federal judge halted Louisiana from immediately moving forward with the state's nitrogen gas execution of death row inmate ...
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Judge blocks Louisiana's 1st nitrogen gas execution over possible 'pain and terror'
Only four inmates have been executed with nitrogen gas in U.S. history, all in Alabama last year and this year. All the inmates in that state chose nitrogen gas over lethal injection and the ...
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Chefs, artists, business owners come out against Louisiana execution using nitrogen gas
Hoffman is slated to be the first death row inmate outside of Alabama to be killed using nitrogen gas in the modern era. "Executions — especially those by experimental and gruesome methods ...
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Judge Blocks Louisiana's First Nitrogen Gas Execution: 'Pain and Terror'
Alabama is the lone state to have utilized nitrogen gas in executions, forcing four condemned men to inhale pure nitrogen, displacing the oxygen in their lungs. "Eyewitness accounts from these ...