Louisiana derived Death prisoner Jessie Hoffman through nitrogen gas despite the efforts of the last brisk from his legal team that claims that the method has broken his religious freedoms.
Hoffman, who was convicted of the brutal rape and killing of 28 years in 1996. year, Louisiana in Angola’s State Day before 7 pm, confirmed his lawyers with the promise of the judicial initiative.
State officials did not formally announce his execution.
He marked the execution of the first nitrogen in Louisiana and the first execution of the state in 15 years. Three other countries – Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma – allow nitrogen executions, but only Alabama has previously used the method.
Hoffman’s execution stayed in 19. Court of Court of Judicial Court Richard Moore until 9 am in progress with a hearing. The Baton Rouge Judge overturned the temporary restraint order in the early afternoon.
After that, the American Supreme Court intervenes. The case was still underway in front of the court until it was rejected around 19:00 and by voting from 5 to 4. Justices Neil Gorsuch, Soonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson Jackson Slazni.
Lawyers asked the Court to consider whether the use of Hippoxy Nitrogen breached Hoffman’s religion under the preservation of the religious Law on Freedom, the state law that the government will not burden the religious freedom of a person, unless the act is not in the interest of government.
The prisoner, 46, claimed that nitrogen hypoxia would be interfeded in his religious right to “meditative respiration” while he agreed to death. Hoffman was Buddhist.
“Meditating breathing at the time of death carries a deep spiritual significance and a terrorist state created by forced inhalation of nitrogen makes this practice impossible,” Hoffman’s lawyers.
Louisiana Office replied in saying that the state currently does not have another method that is currently available as flight medications for injection and there is no functional electric chair. Louisiana Legally allows executions via nitrogen gas, deadly injection and electricity.
Republican Governor Jeff Landry Authorized execution of hippoxia nitrogen last year.
In addition, Hoffman never claimed that “there is a legal significant difference between his breathing while he fades in the unconsciousness of the hypoxia and breathing while he would fade into the trifles”, he wrote the state attorneys.
Hoffman spent eight months to combat the method of nitrogen gas.
“Jessie Hoffman suffered because the state decided to take advantage of the end of his life as an experiment,” Samantha Pourciau said, older staff on the promise of the judiciary, in a written statement after the execution of her client.
“It was a creepy and long-lasting thing that our Constitution was designed to protect us, as Americans, from searching – a very thing to our country would think of us to differ from the nation we heathen.
“Instead, Louisianans will wake up tomorrow knowing what our state did and read about the murder that caused psychological pain, suffering and terror.”
The Court sentenced Hoffman to the death of deadly injection in 1998. year, about two years after killing Mary “Molly” Elliott in the parish of St Tammany. Elliott was preparing to go to a date with his wife day before Thanksgiving.
She left her office in the French fourth and headed for his car. It’s when Hoffman, a car park attendant, kidnapped and raped. It was shot in the head long. Hunter Ducks found a naked body on Rijeka East Pearl next to the state line Louisiana-Mississippi on Thanksgiving. Hoffman was 18 years at the time of the murder and was in mortal orders for 27 years.
Despite the horrific crime, one of the Elliott’s relatives begged for pardoning in front of the execution.
“I want to speak my opportunity as a family member in the misdemeanor’s family before Jessie and to disturb me that my voice cannot be heard,” Kate Murphy wrote, in the letter of the hearing committee. “The execution of Jessie Hoffman is not justice in my name, that’s the opposite.”
Hoffman expressed remorse on Elliott’s husband, parents and other family members in the 1923 offense. Years.
“Mr. Elliotta, on Molly Elliott’s parents, and to all those who influenced so senseless and painful loss, I am very painful that everyone was only selfish, terrible and heartless,” he wrote that everyone was only selfish, terrible and heartless. ” Hoffman wrote.
The use of nitrogen gas comes under intense supervision by anti-death penalty Organizations and the United Nations, which have determined the method last year may publish torture, violation of international human rights treaties that have ratified the United States
In 2024. Alabama became the first state to commit a prisoner using nitrogen gas when Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, to death.
Smith was moored for Gurner and equipped with a mask and breathing tubes that slowly deprived his oxygen. During the 22th minute executions, Smith shook and fell in love within the limit on Gurney.
Louisiana did not make his protocols for execution of gas in nitrogen, which means that lawyers and Hoffman did not fully know what would be executed.