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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry: Carrying out the death penalty is state’s duty to crime victims
THIBODAUX, La. (BRPROUD) — Gov. Jeff Landry was asked about the death penalty at a Wednesday press conference. The new governor was at Nicholls State University, where he named four new ...
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Opinion: It’s now clear that America’s death penalty is dying one generation at a time
Capital punishment has continued to become rarer in recent years, and public opinion of the practice keeps growing dimmer ...
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Biden commutes sentences of 37 death row prisoners. These two are from Louisiana
Out of the 37 inmates who were once on federal death row, two Louisiana inmates are now serving life in prison sentences. Biden commutates two Louisiana inmates from death row to life in prison ...
AG Drummond asks for inmate in Louisiana federal prison be transferred to Oklahoma for execution
George John Hanson was sentenced to death for the 1999 murder of a 77-year-old woman who was carjacked and kidnapped from a ...
Oklahoma Attorney General requests prisoner transfer from Louisiana for execution
Attorney General Gentner Drummond requested Friday that a prisoner on Oklahoma’s death row be transferred from federal prison ...