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

  • Arkansas lawmakers have approved a bill to allow nitrogen gas as a method of execution, sending it to the Senate after a 67-23 House vote.
  • Louisiana plans to execute Jessie Hoffman using nitrogen gas on March 18, aiming to be the second state to do so after Alabama.
  • Supporters say nitrogen executions will resume the death penalty in Arkansas, which has not executed anyone since 2017.
  • Critics argue that nitrogen hypoxia is an experimental method that causes suffering.
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Louisiana death row inmate who is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia challenges the method

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more “humane” method. Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argued against the capital punishment method of nitrogen hypoxia in a Baton Rouge federal court on Friday. The hearing occurred a week after Hoffman filed a lawsuit seeking to block hi…

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Days before he's executed, Louisiana prisoner pleads for another method

Jessie Hoffman, set for execution on March 18 by nitrogen gas, is fighting the method, arguing it violates his Buddhist faith and causes unnecessary suffering

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Jessie Hoffman, set to be executed in March, challenges Louisiana's use of nitrogen gas

Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. appeared in federal court Friday to ask that the state not use nitrogen gas to put him to death on March 18 under the state's new execution protocol.

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Louisiana and Arkansas look to follow Alabama with nitrogen executions

Hours after the nation’s first execution by nitrogen gas in January last year, Alabama’s attorney general urged other states to also develop it as a method for carrying out death sentences. Now, some states are following suit.

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Louisiana death row inmate seeks to halt execution as state unseals nitrogen gas protocol

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) -- Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman, a Louisiana death row inmate scheduled for execution on March 18, are asking a federal judge to halt his execution, arguing that the secrecy surrounding the state’s use of nitrogen hypoxia violates his constitutional rights. On Thursday, attorneys for the state and Hoffman reached an agreement to unseal a redacted version of Louisiana’s new execution protocol for nitrogen hypoxia,…

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Arkansas bill would authorize nitrogen gas executions

Supporters say it will allow executions to resume in a state that hasn’t put anyone to death since it executed four inmates in 2017.

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NW Arkansas Democrat gazzette broke the news in Arkansas, United States on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
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