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In 1990 a jury found Gregory Hunt guilty and by a vote of 11 to 1 recommended he be put to death for the Aug. 2, 1988, murder ...

A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked Louisiana's first execution in 15 years after lawyers for the condemned man argued a new method known as nitrogen hypoxia would violate his ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has adopted new execution protocols, including the use of nitrogen hypoxia as a method of carrying ...

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 ...

"The Eighth Circuit court was upheld nitrogen hypoxia as constitutional. Each case will still be reviewed, but I expect it to stand up to legal scrutiny." As Arkansas prepares for possible future ...

The Alabama Supreme Court has authorized the execution of death row inmate Gregory Hunt for the 1988 beating death of a Walker County woman.

Richard Gerald Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, has been scheduled for execution on June 25, 2025, ...

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Governor Kay Ivey announced Wednesday that the execution of Gregory Hunt has been scheduled to begin at 12:00 a.m. on Tuesday ...