‘Cheneyville Slasher’ has execution pushed back

Larry Roy

Larry Roy, dubbed the ‘Cheneyville Slasher,’ has had his execution, according to Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell.

Terrell obtained the warrant  for Roy’s death warrant on Feb. 10. Ninth Judicial District Court Judge Chris Hazel denied the death warrant on Feb. 13.

Roy was found guilty by a Rapides Parish jury and sentenced to death. The crime which led to Roy’s death sentence took place in 1993. At that time, Roy attacked his ex-girlfriend Sally Richard, her ex-husband, Freddie Richard Jr., and their children. The attack resulted in the deaths of her aunt Rosetta Silas and Richard, Jr. 

Roy was set to be executed on March 19 by suffocation at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola.

The denied motion follows in the wake as another death row inmate, Jessie Hoffman, challenged the nitrogen gas method and asked for the punishment to be a more ‘humane’ method. As of March 11, U.S. Chief District Judge Shelly Dick has blocked the State of Louisiana from this execution.

A hearing regarding the case has been set for April 14, in the 9th Judicial District Court.