Louisiana's first nitrogen gas execution blocked by federal judge
A federal judge temporarily blocked Louisiana's first execution in 15 years after lawyers for the man argued nitrogen hypoxia ...
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, ...
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Louisiana's first nitrogen gas execution halted for now following federal judge's ruling
Dick granted the preliminary injunction Tuesday after a daylong hearing Friday in which attorneys for condemned inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued that the state's plan to use nitrogen hypoxia as his ...
A Federal judge has halted Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution. The state says it will appeal
U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from immediately moving ...
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Quin Hillyer: Federal judge was correct to delay barbaric execution by nitrogen gas
Available evidence indicates that death by nitrogen gas is inhumane, a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against ...
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Jim Beam column:Execution method under fire
When a conservative columnist says execution by the administration of pure nitrogen gas is a “cruel and unusual punishment,” ...
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Louisiana's first nitrogen gas execution halted for now following federal judge's ruling
"Now, after an expedited hearing, and absent a fully developed record, this Court must answer the ultimate question: is nitrogen hypoxia ... chamber at Angola with exhaust fans and oxygen monitors ...
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Louisiana’s Jewish community protests nitrogen gas death row executions, seeing a link to ‘the decimation of our people’
Louisiana officials had planned to use nitrogen hypoxia for the first ... gas is not administered in a chamber but – in Alabama and Louisiana – through a mask worn by the inmate, said Deborah ...