Louisiana, its execution

Louisiana to move forward with nitrogen gas executions, Landry says
That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as methods for carrying out death sentences last year. At the time, a group of Jewish citizens appealed to lawmakers to reject the use of gassing, saying it evoked the gas chambers used during the Holocaust.
Louisiana resumes executions after 15-year pause, approves use of nitrogen gas method
Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.
Louisiana Seeks to Resume Executions Imminently After a 15-Year Pause
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
Why 1st death row killing in 15 years is off, even as Louisiana plans to resume executions
Gov. Jeff Landry announced Monday that the state had developed a protocol for executing people with nitrogen gas, allowing it to resume executions after 15 years. At least three district attorneys have since sought death warrants.
Louisiana poised to resume executions – including by nitrogen gas
Louisiana is poised to resume executions – including via nitrogen gas – after a 15-year pause, the state's Republican governor announced this week.
Louisiana ready to resume executions
With the support of Governor Jeff Landry, Louisiana’s Attorney General, Liz Murrill, signaled the state is ready to resume executions.
Louisiana schedules back-to-back executions for next month
A St. Tammany Parish judge has scheduled a condemned killer to be executed March 18, the day after another man convicted for ...
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A new rule slashed how much prisons can charge for phone calls. Louisiana is challenging it.
The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...
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State finalizes drug protocol to allow death sentences to be carried out
The Louisiana State Penitentiary personnel will conduct checks on all aspects of the nitrogen system and other apparatus utilized in the protocol prior to the commencement of the execution.
Rapides DA obtains death warrant for the “Cheneyville Slasher”
ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell has obtained a death warrant for death row inmate Larry Roy. Governor Jeff Landry announced on Monday the Department of Public ...
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Louisiana's incarcerated girls return to controversial Ware Youth Center
Girls who are in state custody for committing crimes are being moved back to the Ware Youth Center, a privately-runfacility ...
US Attorney General Pam Bondi orders murderer returned to Oklahoma for execution
John Fitzgerald Hanson is serving a life sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, Louisiana. His return for execution ...
Fighting for the rights of the incarcerated has been her lifelong pursuit
In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...