Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using nitrogen gas as the execution method.

That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as methods for carrying out death sentences last year. At the time, a group of Jewish citizens appealed to lawmakers to reject the use of gassing, saying it evoked the gas chambers used during the Holocaust.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry says the state is ready to execute death row inmates again. Landry says the Department of Corrections has finalized an updated execution protocol, including procedures for nitrogen

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry said crime victims and their families have waited too long for justice in the form of death penalty executions.

Louisiana corrections officials have drafted and approved a new policy to allow the state to restart executing death row inmates, Gov. Jeff Landry said Monday. The latest: The policy is modeled after Alabama's execution methods,

Gov. Jeff Landry announced on Monday, February 10, that the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has finalized and implemented an updated protocol that allows for the sentences of