Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...
The Louisiana attorney general's office has filed an emergency brief with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a scheduled execution for next week.
Available evidence indicates that death by nitrogen gas is inhumane, a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against ...
A federal judge has halted Louisiana's first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next ...
Lucifer himself could conceive of few more evil ways to execute someone than nitrogen hypoxia,' one spiritual leader for ...
After Louisiana scheduled its first nitrogen gas execution for March 18 -- currently being blocked by a federal judge -- ...
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...
Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued that using nitrogen hypoxia to put him to death would violate his constitutional rights ...
U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction stopping the state from moving forward with Jessie ...
As The Washington Post notes, section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits any entity receiving federal funds from discriminating against people with disabilities. Section 504 also says ...
Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and ...
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