Lethal injection, electrocution and now firing squads. A look at US execution methods
South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn't been used in ...
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Death penalty case revived in federal courts, raising questions about Louisiana execution methods
The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...
81-year-old death row inmate dies weeks before his scheduled execution
Louisiana inmate Christopher Sepulvado died Saturday, just over three weeks before he was scheduled to be put to death for ...
Louisiana death row inmate Christopher Sepulvado dies before execution date
Louisiana death row inmate Christopher Sepulvado died Saturday his lawyers announced. He had been given an execution date in ...
Louisiana's oldest death row inmate dies less than month before execution date
Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a ...
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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 ...
Louisiana man on death row dies weeks before March execution date
Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died from "natural causes," the state corrections department said. He was convicted of murder in ...
Louisiana death row inmate dies of illness weeks before scheduled execution
Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was the DeSoto Parish man sentenced to death for the beating and scalding death of his 6-year-old ...
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81-year-old death row inmate dies weeks before his scheduled execution
An 81-year-old Louisiana death row inmate died Saturday ... execution protocol that includes nitrogen hypoxia, a new execution method it adopted last year. The method – which in Louisiana ...
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Death penalty case revived in federal courts, raising questions about Louisiana execution methods
"We've been challenging the state's methods of execution for almost 13 years ... 1993 after being convicted of murdering his six-year-old stepson, Wesley Mercer. District Attorney Charles ...