Electrocution
Alabama
Louisiana governor signs bills to expand death penalty, eliminate parole
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The governor also signed bills that eliminate parole for adults who commit crimes after Aug. 1 and dramatically cut the availability of good...
Alabama
Louisiana will join Alabama in adding nitrogen suffocation as option for killing prisoners
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Louisiana is on the cusp of resuming death penalty executions for the first time in more than a decade after the Legislature gave final pass...
Electrocution
Bills to expand death penalty, allow concealed guns without permits advance in Louisiana
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Debate centered around competing visions: whether to provide imprisoned people more second chances or to toughen their penalties.Family memb...
deterrence
Death penalty expansions being considered in Louisiana
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BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana legislature convened for it's second special session Monday, with crime solutions at the forefront for lawma...
Abolition
The illusion of kinder, gentler executions
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This past week Alabama continued our country’s experiment with different ways to kill people. It executed Kenneth Smith.A brief history. In ...
Alabama
Constitutionality of Death Penalty by Firing Squad, Electric Chair To Be Weighed by South Carolina High Court Next Week
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Is death for inmates by a firing squad or electric chair a form of “cruel and unusual punishment”? That’s the question before South Carolina...
Alabama
Jeff Landry about Alabama nitrogen gas execution, death penalty in Louisiana
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Landry, who supported gas, firing squads and hanging in the past, will ask the Legislature to expand execution methods.Gov. Jeff Landry will...
Alabama
43 Alabama inmates may face nitrogen gas executions
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More than a quarter of all inmates currently on Alabama's death row have chosen nitrogen gas as their execution method, and those decisi...