Louisiana Can Carry Out First Nitrogen Gas Execution, Court Rules
Under the state's new procedure, Hoffman will be strapped to a gurney and forced to breathe pure nitrogen gas through a ...
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How Louisiana's shifting politics led to the restart of executions, use of nitrogen gas
Five years after Louisiana lawmakers swiftly killed an attempt to shield makers of lethal injection drugs, Jeff Landry and ...
Louisiana AG says state’s first nitrogen execution still expected Tuesday
Hoffman is on death row for kidnapping Mary Elliott in New Orleans, before raping and killing her in St. Tammany Parish in ...
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 ...
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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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 ...
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, ...
Louisiana man asks Supreme Court to stop his nitrogen gas execution
According to a new court filing, Jesse Hoffman is asking the Louisiana Supreme Court to prevent him from being executed by nitrogen gas, saying the method violates his religious freedom and Eighth ...
'Psychological Terror': Lawyers for Condemned Man Urge Justices to Stop Nitrogen Gas Execution
Louisiana is planning its first execution by nitrogen gas on Tuesday evening. In a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme ...