Washington, March 19, 2025 (AFP) - US state of Louisiana executes convict by nitrogen inhalation

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A death row inmate in the US state of Louisiana was executed Tuesday by nitrogen inhalation, a method previously used only in neighboring Alabama and compared by UN experts to a form of torture. The execution of 46-year-old Jessie Hoffman, convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering Mary "Molly" Elliot in 1996, was the first in Louisiana after a 15-year hiatus. The carrying out of the death sentence was announced by two of Hoffman's lawyers i......

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