Convicted murderer becomes Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution

On Tuesday, a prisoner of Louisiana’s death row was hanged with nitrogen gas, a way that had never been used in the state before.

“Louisiana has officially executed Hafman, a reporter,” Louisiana, “Louisiana, in implementing the state’s first nitrogen gas,” said Andrea Gello, a reporter in Nola News, “Andrea Gello shared,” Andrea Gello shared in a post on X.

Huffman, 46, was sentenced in 1996 for the 28 -year -old advertising executive, Mary “Molly” for the kidnapping, rape and murder of Elite.

Elite was abducted by Huffman, who was 18 years old at the time, shot dead a day before Thanksgiving from his home and in the rural St. Tammani Parish.

Shortly before the death of Halfman, the US Supreme Court refused to request a last ditch to stop the execution.

Huffman’s lawyer, Cecilia Kapil, earlier and in the state appeal, had foiled that it was unconstitutional to execute a convicted killer by a nitrogen gas and would violate her religious freedom.

“It’s a consciousness,” Kapil told Wvue. “It has a rely on your face. It’s like a sinking.”

The appeal states that since Hafman is Buddhism, his breathing and meditation methods will be affected by the execution process.

“He suggested,” Kill me with the firing squad, “Kapil said. “” At least, I will be able to breathe the air at the time of my death. ” And the state has not said.

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Louisiana officials say the procedure, which is deprived of oxygen, is painless, and announcing that it is time for the state to provide justice to the families of the victims after a decade and a half.

Huffman was temporarily recovered by a federal judge, but was overturned by the fifth circuit courts on Friday, and additional efforts to stop the execution of the state were also rejected on Tuesday morning.

Louisiana’s Attorney General Liz Murl said the court’s decision would help bring justice to Elite.

Morrell wrote in a post on X, “Breaking: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal abolished the order in the Hafman case. The convicted killer and rapist will be brought to justice on Tuesday.”

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“It’s justice for Mary” Molly “Elite, for her friend, her family and Louisiana.”

Merl added that she expects at least four people to be hanged this year in Louisiana’s death row.

Halfman is ready to become the seventh person in the United States in 2025 and the first person in Louisiana after 2010.

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The death of nitrogen gas is currently allowed in only four states in only four states, including Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma. However, this method is used only in Alabama.

According to the AP, in recent decades, the number of executions at the national level has decreased sharply, which has led to the majority of the states either ending or preventing the death penalty.

The Associated Press cooperated in this report.

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