Jewish organization fighting to ban lethal gas as execution method
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BATON ROUGE - Members of Jews Against Gassing stood alongside Senator Katrina Jackson-Andrews on the Capitol steps Tuesday afternoon to protest a recently passed bill which legalized lethal gas as an execution method.House Bill 6, authored by Representative Muscarello and signed by Governor Jeff Landry, approved the use of lethal gas for death-row executions. The new precedent is set to begin in July.Louisiana became the eighth state in the country to recognize lethal gas as an execution...

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