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The former execution chamber; the electric chair is a replica of the original (Gruesome Gertie). The Red Hat Cell Block is a former prison housing unit of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana which, for a time, also contained the state's execution chamber and electric chair.
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]
Louisiana's method of execution is lethal injection. Louisiana law stated that the execution method for death sentences prior to September 15, 1991 would use electrocution and those after would use lethal injection. [8] In 2024, Governor Jeff Landry signed a bill that adds two more methods of execution, with nitrogen gas and electrocution. [9] [10]
As red states add execution methods — from firing squads in Idaho to, the newest method, oxygen deprivation using nitrogen in Alabama — Louisiana is one step closer to joining the list.
Bidding to resume Louisiana executions after a 14-year pause, the state's Republican-dominated Legislature gave final passage to a bill Thursday to add electrocution and the use of nitrogen gas as ...
A federal court blocked Louisiana from using a congressional map signed into law this year that had been redrawn to include a second majority-Black district. Court blocks Louisiana's congressional ...
The former State of Louisiana execution chamber at the Red Hat Cell Block in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in West Feliciana Parish. The electric chair is a replica of the original . In the United States, an execution chamber will usually contain a lethal injection table.
This is a list of adult state prisons in Louisiana. It does not include federal prisons or parish jails located in the state of Louisiana. The Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections directly operates all except two. Allen Correctional Center; Avoyelles Correctional Center - As of 2012, the state planned to privatize Avoyelles [1]