This Week in Louisiana Politics: Gulf of America, March 29 election and execution trial
BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Louisiana’s first execution in nearly 15 years was put on hold by a federal judge in the state’s Middle District Court.
Jessie Hoffman was scheduled to be executed by nitrogen, but a judge granted his request for a stay under the Eighth Amendment. The ruling delayed the execution until after a trial takes place, but Hoffman is now scheduled to be executed on Tuesday after a recent court ruling.
Very soon, Louisiana students will need to learn a new name for the body of water off the state’s coast. The state Department of Education has approved a measure to call it the Gulf of America, though it is internationally known as the Gulf of Mexico.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Hours before a Louisiana man is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday, his attorneys are hoping for a last-minute court ruling to halt the state’s first execution by nitrogen gas. Louisiana plans to use the new method to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to…
BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Attorneys for Louisiana death row inmate Jessie Hoffman have filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking justices to halt his execution, which is scheduled for Tuesday, March 18. The petition for writ of certiorari and application for stay of execution were filed…
BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) -- Lawyers for Jessie Hoffman, a Louisiana death row inmate scheduled for execution on March 18, are asking a federal judge to halt his execution, arguing that the secrecy surrounding the state’s use of nitrogen hypoxia violates his constitutional rights. On Thursday, attorneys for the…