Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry addresses members of the House and Senate on opening day of a legislative special session focusing on crime, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, in the House Chamber at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge, La. (Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP)
FILE - An unidentified attendant checks Louisiana's portable electric chair in the parish jail at St. Martinville, La. on May 9, 1947. In Louisiana, around 60 people currently sit on death row, but an execution hasn't occurred since 2010. Between a conservative governor and a new execution method, there has been a renewed push to find alternatives to lethal injection. (AP Photo/Bill Allen, File)
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry addresses members of the House and Senate on opening day of a legislative special session focusing on crime, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, in the House Chamber at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge, La. (Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP)
FILE - Willie Francis, who escaped death when the first attempt to electrocute him failed because of a faulty electric chair, counts the days in a jail in New Iberia, La., until the second attempt to electrocute him, May 4, 1957. In Louisiana, around 60 people currently sit on death row, but an execution hasn't occurred since 2010. Between a conservative governor and a new execution method, there has been a renewed push to find alternatives to lethal injection. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Louisiana State Penitentiary Warden Burl Cain discusses the gurney used for lethal injections, Sept. 18, 2009, at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. In Louisiana, around 60 people currently sit on death row, but an execution hasn't occurred since 2010. Between a conservative governor and a new execution method, there has been a renewed push to find alternatives to lethal injection. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File)
In this June 15, 2012 photo, the electric chair in the execution room is on display at the Angola museum in Angola, La. In an effort to resume Louisiana’s death row executions after a 14 year pause, the GOP-dominated Legislature gave final passage to a bill Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024 that adds the use of nitrogen gas and electrocution as methods to carry out the death penalty. (Bill Feig/The Advocate via AP)