Louisiana seeks to resume executions imminently after a 15-year pause

Louisiana seeks to resume executions imminently after a 15-year pause
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Louisiana seeks to resume executions imminently after a 15-year pause
Author: Jack Brook
Published: Feb, 12 2025 03:30

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Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using nitrogen gas as the execution method, the state's attorney general said Tuesday.

In another case, district Judge Lowell C. Hazel granted and then halted Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell's request to schedule a March 19 execution for Larry Roy, who was convicted of murder in 1994 for stabbing an ex-lover’s partner and aunt to death.

Cecelia Kappel, director of the Loyola University Center for Social Justice, which is representing Roy, said the district attorney’s attempt to proceed with the execution was “patently unlawful” and “emblematic of how reckless the state’s plan to restart executions is.”.

Roy is entitled to his day in court, he’s entitled to full assistance in counsel in litigating his post-conviction claims, he’s entitled to his hearing and his claims need to be heard by a fair judge and see the light of day and the state needs to grapple with these claims,” Kappel said.

Terrell did not return calls to his office requesting comment, but said in a statement post on his office's Facebook page that he considered nitrogen gas a “painless method of execution” and sought to "bring justice to the survivors of Roy’s horrible crimes.”.

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