{"id":14131,"date":"2025-03-19T19:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T19:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/louisiana-resumes-capital-punishment-with-first-nitrogen-execution\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T19:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T19:50:52","slug":"louisiana-resumes-capital-punishment-with-first-nitrogen-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/louisiana-resumes-capital-punishment-with-first-nitrogen-execution\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Resumes Capital Punishment With First Nitrogen Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is wholly inconsistent with Louisiana\u2019s pro-life values, as it quite literally promotes a culture of death,\u201d Mr. Edwards said in 2023, boosting the hopes of activists who wanted to end the death penalty in the state and prompting <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/politics\/most-louisiana-death-row-inmates-ask-governor-for-mercy\/article_7366a6b6-f4df-11ed-9b6f-0b5ce68bbbd4.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">clemency requests from nearly every prisoner<\/a> on death row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Landry, then the state\u2019s attorney general, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/news\/courts\/jeff-landry-deals-blow-to-louisiana-death-row-clemency-pleas\/article_3e1ca944-2660-11ee-ac16-cf41ddd28ee3.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">argued that many of those prisoners<\/a> were not eligible for clemency. More recently, he said the state needed to follow through on their sentences. The state currently has 56 people on death row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThese capital punishment cases have been reviewed at every judicial level, have had decades of unsuccessful appeals, and the death sentences affirmed by the courts,\u201d Mr. Landry said last month, adding that it was vital to \u201cmove swiftly to bring justice to the crime victims who have waited for too long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Another execution in Louisiana using nitrogen gas had been scheduled for Monday, but the condemned inmate, Christopher Sepulvado, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/lailluminator.com\/2025\/02\/23\/louisiana-execution-4\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">died on Feb. 23, apparently of natural causes<\/a>. Mr. Sepulvado, 81, was terminally ill and his doctors had recommended hospice care, his lawyers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe idea that the state was planning to strap this tiny, frail, dying old man to a chair and force him to breathe toxic gas into his failing lungs is simply barbaric,\u201d Shawn Nolan, one of Mr. Sepulvado\u2019s lawyers, said in a statement after his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before Tuesday, the most recent execution in Louisiana took place on Jan. 7, 2010. 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