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Louisiana Republicans reject Jewish advocates' pleas to bar nitrogen gas as an execution method
Associated Press via AOL· 6 days agoAn effort by Louisiana's Jewish community to bar nitrogen gas as an execution method was blocked by...
Louisiana lawmakers snub Jewish community’s plea to block nitrogen gas executions
Louisiana Illuminator via Yahoo News· 6 days agoRepublicans on the House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice rejected a proposal...
LA House panel votes to keep nitrogen gas as execution method despite Jewish community's opposition
New Orleans Times-Picayune· 6 days agoThe Louisiana House Administration of Criminal Justice on Tuesday rejected 8-3 a bill that would...
Backers believe nitrogen hypoxia can jumpstart Ohio’s stalled capital punishment system
The Repository via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIt has been almost six years since Ohio carried out an execution, and some lawmakers believe a new...
Bill to remove gas suffocation executions nixed despite change of heart from some lawmakers
WVLA Baton Rouge via Yahoo News· 6 days agoBATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – A Louisiana House committee stopped a bill that would have reversed the...
Tolls eliminated from Beach Express after state purchases private toll bridge
Associated Press· 5 days agoThere will be no charge beginning Thursday to drive across the Foley Beach Express Bridge after Alabama purchased the private toll bridge that provides one route to state beaches. Republican ...
Republicans reject bill to outlaw death penalty by nitrogen suffocation in Louisiana
New Orleans Times-Picayune· 6 days agoA federal judge has since overturned Wessinger's death sentence. The committee voted the bill down...
Justice Sotomayor Admits Some SCOTUS Rulings Have Driven Her To Tears
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoThe liberal justice also hinted that there may be more conservative victories soon as the court...
Opioid crisis continues to impact capital punishment in Alabama | STEPHEN COOPER
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAlabama’s history of torture, as of January, includes being the first state to torture a prisoner to...
Timing of Alabama inmate Jamie Mills’ lawsuit ‘inexplicable and inexcusable,’ judge says
Birmingham News· 6 days agoAnother federal judge has rejected a request by Alabama inmate Jamie Ray Mills to stay his execution...