With nitrogen inhalation, 46 -year -old Jessie Hoffman will be executed tomorrow in Louisiana, USA, in the first execution of the death of the state for 15 years.

The controversial method, which has been used only in neighboring Alabama, is criticized by UN experts as a form of “torture”.

Jessie Hoffman was sentenced to the last penalty for the abduction, rape and murder of Mary Eliot in 1996.

This week there are three other deadly executions – one on Wednesday in Arizona and two on Thursday, in Florida and Oklahoma – all with a deadly solution.

Since the beginning of the year, six executions have been made across the country: four with a deadly injection, one in Alabama with nitrogen inhalation, while in South Carolina a deadly man was led to the executive excerpt – something that happened for the first time in the US since 2010.

Federal court suspended Jessie Hoffman’s scheduled execution last week on the grounds that nitrogen inhalation is a “harsh and unusual punishment” prohibited by the 8th amendment of the US Constitution. The deadly requested to be brought before an executive excerpt.

However, a hyper -conservative Court of Appeal canceled the suspension of the execution of the sentence, arguing that the execution by rifle would be “more painful” compared to nitrogen inhalation.

Hoffman’s lawyers appealed to the US Supreme Court calling for suspension of execution.

Kenneth Smith’s execution in Alabama on January 25, 2024, was the first in the world by the nitrogen inhalation method and had sparked international reactions. Since then, three more has been done in this state.

The death penalty has been abolished in 23 of the 50 US states. The rulers of six other states (Arizona, California, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee) apply a moratorium to executions.