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Louisiana Can Carry Out First Nitrogen Gas Execution

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 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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Attorneys, advocates make last-minute bid to stop Louisiana’s execution of Jessie Hoffman

Hoffman’s execution is set for Tuesday after the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a federal judge’s decision to ...

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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 ...

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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