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The Latest Breaking News from Louisiana

Inside the race against time to halt Louisiana’s first execution in 15 years

The state plans to kill a prisoner with nitrogen gas. Critics say that amounts to torture

The Independent UK

Louisiana to use nitrogen execution method it bans for cats and dogs

State plans to carry out first judicial killing in 15 years on Tuesday using technique critics call inhumane

The Guardian - US

Appeals court says Louisiana can carry out the state’s first nitrogen gas execution next week

Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned after a federal appeals court overturned a lower judge’s ruling Friday

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Mahmoud Khalil ‘felt as though he was being kidnapped’, lawyers say

Lawyers demand in updated lawsuit that Columbia University graduate be released from custody

The Guardian - US

Survivor who ignited US Catholic church’s reckoning with abuse killed in Louisiana

Scott Anthony Gastal, who at age 11 had testified in court in the 1980s that his priest had raped him, was beaten to death

The Guardian - US

US transfers immigrants out of Guantanamo Bay to Louisiana as court weighs legality

Authorities have removed U.S. immigrants from detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay as a federal court in Washington weighs a challenge by civil rights advocates to holding immigrants at the offshore military station

The Independent UK

Louisiana Death Row Inmate With Days to Live Who Pleaded For More 'Humane' Way to Die Gets His Wish

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Louisiana from using nitrogen gas to execute a death row inmate just days ahead of his scheduled execution.

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Hundreds rally for Mahmoud Khalil outside courthouse as lawyers condemn ‘unprecedented’ case against Columbia student

Trump administration’s threat to deport Columbia graduate for involvement in Gaza protests draws fears of a crackdown on dissent, Alex Woodward and Richard Hall report from federal court in Manhattan

The Independent UK

Judge extends ban on deportation of Mahmoud Khalil from the US

Columbia University student’s lawyers ask judge to order his return to New York from immigration detention in Louisiana.

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Detained Pro-Palestinian Activist Denied Legal Calls, Lawyer Tells US Court

A leader of US student protests against Israel's war in Gaza slated for removal has been denied legal advice, a judge heard Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump vowed to deport foreign pro-Palestinian student demonstrators.

International Business Times

Louisiana woman pleads not guilty to a felony in historic abortion case

A Louisiana woman has pleaded not guilty to a felony after allegedly getting abortion pills from a New York doctor and giving them to her teenage daughter to terminate a pregnancy

The Independent UK

Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution halted by federal judge

U.S. District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday, stopping the state from immediately moving forward with the execution of Jesse Hoffman Jr

The Independent UK

Federal judge halts Louisiana’s first nitrogen gas execution, state says it will appeal

A federal judge halted Louisiana’s first death row execution using nitrogen gas, which was scheduled to take place next week

The Independent UK

Former Chiefs Safety Justin Reid Agrees to Three-Year Deal With Saints

Reid will return home to Louisiana in 2025.

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Black voters' power hangs in the balance

Conservatives have challenged the drawing of some Black-majority congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms

The Guardian - US

America’s next killing spree: 10 days, five states, six death-row prisoners set to die

Desolate spectacle of executions ramps up as the landscape of states’ laws on capital punishment is as riven as the US itself

The Guardian - US

Two more arrested in fraternity hazing death of Louisiana student

Three people in custody after Southern University student Caleb Wilson was allegedly punched repeatedly in chest

Latin Times

Louisiana Death Row Inmate With Days to Live Pleads With Court for More 'Humane' Way to Die

A Louisiana death row inmate scheduled to die on March 18 is pleading with the court to delay his execution, arguing that the use of nitrogen gas is cruel.

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52-foot-high 'megaripples' from asteroid that killed the dinosaurs mapped deep beneath Louisiana in 3D

Buried "megaripples" — some the size of five-story buildings — are helping scientists piece together the devastation following the impact that wiped out the nonavian dinosaurs.

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Patriots Send Veteran Defensive Tackle Davon Godchaux to Saints in Trade

A Louisiana native is reportedly coming home.

The Guardian - US

Louisiana death row inmate challenges nitrogen gas as execution method

Jessie Hoffman Jr, who would become first person state killed this way, says his religious rights would be violated

The Independent UK

Louisiana death row inmate who is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia challenges the method

A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more humane method

The Independent UK

Justice Dept. says ending Louisiana petrochemical case helps 'dismantle radical DEI programs'

The Justice Department is celebrating its decision to drop a federal lawsuit against a Louisiana petrochemical plant accused of worsening cancer risks for residents in a majority-Black community

The Guardian - US

Multiple people face charges in hazing death of Southern University student

Man surrenders to police and two more arrests expected in Caleb Wilson’s death after Omega Psi Phi fraternity ritual

The Guardian - US

Trump administration to drop case against plant polluting Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

Biden-era suit sought to curb emissions of the carcinogen chloroprene at Denka plant formerly owned by DuPont

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