Five years after Louisiana lawmakers swiftly killed an attempt to shield makers of lethal injection drugs, Jeff Landry and Nicholas Muscarello teamed up to legalize nitrogen gas executions.

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, such a method echoes the Holocaust.

If Gov. Sarah Sanders signs into law HB 1489, Arkansas executions could begin again. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Wardlaw, R-Hermitage, and Sen. Blake Johnson, R-Corning, would allow