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.
Why 1st death row killing in 15 years is off, even as Louisiana plans to resume executions
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.
A St. Tammany Parish judge has scheduled a condemned killer to be executed March 18, the day after another man convicted for ...
Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...
The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...
The Louisiana State Penitentiary personnel will conduct checks on all aspects of the nitrogen system and other apparatus utilized in the protocol prior to the commencement of the execution.
An influential Louisiana lawmaker will push for minors to be sent to adult prison for a slew of new crimes such as ...
While she was serving her sentence in the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, she took advantage of several ...
John Fitzgerald Hanson is serving a life sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana. His return for execution ...
A lieutenant with the Louisiana Sate Police has been arrested in an off-duty domestic violence incident, the agency said.
In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...
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