Louisiana, Nitrogen and Death Row
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 to Hoffman, depriving him of his rights. It also alleges executing Hoffman via nitrogen gas would violate the Eight Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishment.
Living organisms need nitrogen as a central building block for protein formation, for example. However, although our ...
A bill allowing for nitrogen hypoxia to be used as a criminal execution method for the Arkansas Department of Corrections ...
Priest Jeff Hood on North Little Rock shares an eyewitness account of the torturous nitrogen execution he witnessed in ...
The use of nitrogen gas is considered too barbaric and inhumane for euthanizing dogs and cats, according to veterinarians, and has been banned in all but two states. But, on March 18, Louisiana ...
Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to be the first person Louisiana puts to death using nitrogen gas. “Knowing the day he’s going to ...
No one spoke in favor of the bill, while multiple legislators and Arkansans spoke against it. It passed anyway.
The bill would add nitrogen hypoxia to the list of alternatives to lethal injection available, alongside the electric chair.
The execution happens when the nitrogen gas kills by essentially strangling a person by taking away their oxygen. In theory ...
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