Louisiana lawmaker proposes adding nitrogen gas and electrocution to the state's execution methods

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry out capital punishment.

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