Louisiana reintroduces the electric chair, adds nitrogen hypoxia to execution methods

Earlier this month, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law the state's plans to execute inmates using electrocution and nitrogen hypoxia. Lethal injection is still available, but sourcing the chemicals used is difficult. Amid a variety of other factors, the production of chemicals used to kill human beings is illegal in the countries that the US sources from. — Read the rest
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