US set to execute four death row inmates this week
- A 46-year-old man named Jessie Hoffman is set to be executed by nitrogen gas in Louisiana for the 1996 murder of Molly Elliott, marking Louisiana's first execution in 15 years.
- The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a stay on Hoffman's execution, allowing it to proceed despite concerns about nitrogen gas being potentially cruel and unusual punishment.
- Three other executions are scheduled this week in Arizona, Florida, and Oklahoma, with Aaron Gunches, Wendell Grissom, and Edward James facing lethal injection.
- Cecelia Kappel, Hoffman's attorney, stated that nitrogen gas execution interferes with Hoffman's Buddhist practices, emphasizing there are other methods available that would not do so.
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Death Row Inmate To Be Executed In ‘Torturous’ Way—Even Animals Don't Get This Inhuman Treatment
A 46-year-old death row inmate is due to be executed today in a way that legal experts have deemed "torturous" and inhumane. The mode of execution is said to be so distressing that even animals are forbidden from being euthanized this way.
Louisiana to execute prisoner using nitrogen gas banned for animal euthanasia
The US state of Louisiana is set to carry out its first execution in 15 years using nitrogen gas, a method that is banned under the state’s own laws for euthanizing cats and dogs. Unless the US Supreme Court intervenes, Jessie Hoffman, a 46-year-old prisoner, is scheduled to be executed in Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. Hoffman was sentenced to death for the 1996 rape and murder of advertising executive Mary Elliott. …
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