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The Louisiana Legislature approved the use of nitrogen gas executions last year, following Alabama's implementation of the ...

Louisiana is poised to resume executions – including via nitrogen gas – after a 15-year pause, the state's Republican ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) — After 15 years, Louisiana has resumed executions and joined three other states in a controversial new method. “Louisiana has decided that when you take a life in certain ...

Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using nitrogen gas as the execution method, the state’s attorney general said Tuesday.

If nitrogen hypoxia is used, an inmate breathes 100 percent nitrogen, which causes suffocation. Louisiana is one of four states that have approved it for executions.

Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...

Louisiana corrections officials have drafted and approved a new policy to allow the state to restart executing death row ...

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