Louisiana resumes executions after 15 years, issues first protocol for nitrogen hypoxia
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the experimental method nitrogen hypoxia.
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Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it to resume executions after 15 years. At least three district attorneys have since sought death warrants.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry poised to resume death penalty executions
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said crime victims and their families have waited too long for justice in the form of death penalty executions.
Louisiana executions to resume, Gov. Jeff Landry announces
Governor Landry announced that the La. Dept. of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated protocol that allows for the sentences of inmates on death Row to be carried out.
Louisiana to move forward with nitrogen gas executions, Landry says
That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as methods for carrying out death sentences last year. At the time, a group of Jewish citizens appealed to lawmakers to reject the use of gassing, saying it evoked the gas chambers used during the Holocaust.
Gov. Landry announces executions set to resume in Louisiana using nitrogen gas
Gov. Jeff Landry announced on Monday, February 10, that the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated protocol that allows for the sentences of
After 15 years without executions, Louisiana ready to resume them using gas, Jeff Landry says
Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out again after nearly 15 years, Gov. Jeff Landry said Monday. “For too long, Louisiana has failed to uphold the promises made to victims of our State’s most violent crimes;
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