Louisiana Watches Closely as Supreme Court Stops Nitrogen Execution in Alabama

An Alabama Court Halted Nitrogen Gas Execution. This Reverend Hopes Other States Will Follow

Rev. Jeff Hood witnessed both the state's first and last nitrogen execution. He's been fighting back ever since.

Louisiana watches closely as Supreme Court stops nitrogen execution in Alabama

A medical gas mask, like the one pictured here, is used to administer nitrogen during executions. A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against Alabama carrying out what would be the state's seventh execution using nitrogen. (Getty Images)After the U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to intervene in an Alabama case, the effort to end executions by nitrogen hypoxia could shift to Louisiana, where the state has already carried out th…

Why the Supreme Court is fighting over deadly gas and firing squads

A man looks at a painting by Dmity Kolistratov "Firing Squad" (2016). | Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images Last week, the Supreme Court handed an unusual — if temporary — victory to an Alabama man on death row. As Steve Vladeck, a Georgetown law professor, writes, this is the first time in over five years that this Court refused to “un-block an execution that a lower court had put on hold,” at least in a case that arose on the Court’s enigm…

The Supreme Court’s Jeffrey Lee Decision Says a Lot About the Death Penalty

On Thursday, June 11, the Alabama Department of Corrections filed an emergency request to the Supreme Court, asking for permission to proceed with that evening’s scheduled execution of Jeffrey Lee by nitrogen hypoxia, a method of capital punishment authorized by the state legislature in 2018. To carry out such executions, state officials strap a condemned person to a gurney and put a mask over their face that replaces breathing air with 100 perc…

The Supreme Court is fighting over deadly gas and firing squads, in Lovelace v. Lee

Last week, the Supreme Court handed an unusual — if temporary — victory to an Alabama man on death row. As Steve Vladeck, a Georgetown law professor, writes, this is the first time in over five years that this Court refused to “un-block an execution that a lower court had put on hold,” at least The post The Supreme Court is fighting over deadly gas and firing squads, in Lovelace v. Lee appeared first on .