Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A total of 28 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976. Of the 28 people executed, 20 were executed via electrocution and 8 via lethal injection. The most recent Louisiana inmate to be put to death, Gerald Bordelon, waived his appeals and asked the state to carry out his sentence. [1]
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana before 1972, when capital punishment was briefly abolished by the Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia. For people executed by Louisiana after the restoration of capital punishment by the Supreme Court's ruling in Gregg v.
Louisiana: Nitrogen hypoxia: Profile: 4 March 18, 2025 Jessie D. Hoffman Jr. 46 18 28 Black Profile: 5 March 19, 2025 Aaron Brian Gunches: 53 31 22 White Arizona: Lethal injection Profile: 6 March 20, 2025 Wendell Arden Grissom: 56 37 19 Oklahoma: Profile: 7 April 23, 2025 Moises Sandoval Mendoza: 41 20 21 Hispanic Texas Profile: 8 May 20, 2025
In an effort to resume Louisiana’s death row executions that have been paused for 14 years, lawmakers on Friday advanced a bill that would add the use of nitrogen gas and electrocution as ...
Mosley, who murdered Back, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence. Donna Roberts: Had her ex-husband killed in order to collect his life insurance. 21 years, 235 days [82] Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio. William Kessler Sapp
Nearly all of Louisiana's death row inmates asked on Tuesday for term-limited Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards to spare their lives and grant them clemency — changing their punishment from the ...
Last year nearly every death row inmate in Louisiana asked for clemency — the commutation of a death sentence to life in prison — from then-Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat who favored ...
Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.