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Louisiana death row inmate challenges nitrogen gas

Louisiana’s Jewish community protests nitrogen gas death row executions, seeing a link to ‘the decimation of our people’

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, such a method echoes the Holocaust.

USA TODAY on MSN · 1d

Judge blocks Louisiana's 1st nitrogen gas execution over possible 'pain and terror'

Chief District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling came a week before Jessie Hoffman was set to be executed by nitrogen gas at the Louisiana State Penitentiary.

Axios · 1d

Louisiana execution halted as nitrogen gas method challenged

The man poised to become the first Louisiana death row inmate executed in 15 years scored a significant win Tuesday as he challenges the state's plan to use nitrogen hypoxia to carry out his death sentence.

Texas, Death Row and Federal appeals court

ABC13 Houston · 1d

Federal appeals court reverses Texas death row inmate's 1998 murder conviction

After the woman spent 27 years on death row for killing an 80-year-old man, the court found that prosecutors failed to reveal their primary trial witness was a paid informant.

Yahoo · 6d

Texas Death Row inmate David Wood 'Desert Killer' maintains innocence days before execution

Thirty-seven years to the day, the state of Texas is set to execute Wood for the killing of six of those victims, who bodies were found strangled and raped in a Northeast El Paso desert. Wood is scheduled to be executed after 5 p.m. Thursday, March 13, at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Huntsville Unit prison.

USA Today · 1d

Texas court issues rare stay of execution for Death Row inmate who fought for DNA testing

The order came just over 48 hours before David Leonard Wood was set to be executed by lethal injection on Thursday.

The Lens1d

The Death Penalty as Seen by Glenn Ford

Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution5d

Here’s how people on death row meet their ends in each state

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

2don MSN

Backlash to clemency for 15 on NC’s death row leads to GOP call to limit governor’s power

The bill, which has nine sponsors right now, proposes amending the N.C. Constitution to require legislative approval of all ...

5don MSN

Louisiana death row inmate who is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia challenges the method

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked ...

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Bondi Directs DOJ to Challenge Biden’s Death Row Commutations

Biden only left three mass killers on death row: Dylann Roof, who killed nine people at a church in Charleston, South ...

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Tennessee's death row has been on hold for five years. Four inmates are now scheduled to die.

Four people are now set for execution in 2025 after years of Tennessee pausing its execution process for death penalty cases.

WVTM Channel 13 on MSN3h

New brief filed by former prosecutors urges new trial for Alabama death row inmate

Johnson has been on death row since 1998 when he was convicted of capital murder for the death of Jefferson County Deputy ...

Atlanta Journal-Constitution1d

Georgia death penalty bill ‘an important fix,’ supporters say

A bill that got unanimous support and a standing ovation in the Georgia House this week looks to make it easier for intellectually disabled people to avoid the death penalty, bringing the Peach ...

2don MSN

Death row inmate set for nitrous gas execution, his attorneys say it violates his 8th amendment right

Jessie Hoffman Jr., now 46 years old, was sentenced to death for the 1996 abduction, rape, and killing of a woman in St.

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