BATON ROUGE – Louisiana is scheduled to hold an execution March 18. It would be the state’s first since 2010. A federal judge is weighing whether the state’s execution protocol using nitrogen gas meets constitutional requirements.
Sunday, Jessie Hoffman’s attorneys submitted proposed findings and legal conclusions in their lawsuit fighting Louisiana’s new nitrogen gas execution protocol.
They asked the federal court in Baton Rouge to issue a preliminary injunction to prevent his execution while the court reviewed his constitutional claims…