Louisiana, Nitrogen and Death Row
Louisiana death row inmate files lawsuit to block March 18 execution by nitrogen gas
The latest lawsuit, filed in Louisiana's Middle District Court, says the state has refused to release the execution protocol to Hoffman, depriving him of his rights. It also alleges executing Hoffman via nitrogen gas would violate the Eight Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishment.
For a long time, scientists believed that early life on Earth struggled due to a lack of usable nitrogen. This new discovery ...
A bill allowing for nitrogen hypoxia to be used as a criminal execution method for the Arkansas Department of Corrections ...
No one spoke in favor of the bill, while multiple legislators and Arkansans spoke against it. It passed anyway.
The bill would add nitrogen hypoxia to the list of alternatives to lethal injection available, alongside the electric chair.
Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to be the first person Louisiana puts to death using nitrogen gas. “Knowing the day he’s going to ...
From introducing an act to generate more jobs, and a bill aiming to allow nitrogen hypoxia executions, it has been another busy week at the Arkansas State Capitol.
A bill that would allow nitrogen gas to be used in state executions was endorsed Thursday by an Arkansas House of ...
Today on Louisiana Considered, we learn why Governor Landry established protocols to use nitrogen gas to carry out the death ...
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