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Louisiana Can Carry Out First Nitrogen Gas Execution

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 full-face respirator mask. The protocol is nearly identical to that of Alabama, which became the first state to use nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution last year.

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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 lower judge’s ruling Friday.

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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 an indisputably more painful method of execution as its proposed alternative,

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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 Halts Nitrogen Gas Execution After Judge Agrees with Lawyers Claiming Method Akin to Torture

Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued that using nitrogen hypoxia to put him to death would violate his constitutional rights ...

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Nitrogen gas executions bill clears Arkansas legislature, heads to governor’s desk

Executions using nitrogen gas will soon be legal in Arkansas if the governor signs the legislation into law. House Bill 1489 ...

Court stays execution of Texas man days before he was set to die by lethal injection

Austin, Texas — 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 ...

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