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New Baton Rouge billboard urges Louisiana to eliminate nitrogen gas executions: 'Thou shalt not suffocate'

A new billboard in Baton Rouge has a simple message with a big goal: eliminate a controversial execution method from the ...

Nitrogen gas executions are constitutional, federal judge rules

A federal judge has ruled that execution by nitrogen gas doesn't violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual ...

Nitrogen gas execution method could cause cruel amount of pain: Court

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the amount of time it takes an inmate to die with the nitrogen gas method is ...
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Louisiana death row inmate executed in state's first use of nitrogen hypoxia

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Tuesday night, marking the state's first use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. According to officials, Hoffman was ...