Louisiana seeks to resume executions imminently after a 15-year pause
Louisiana will seek to resume carrying out death sentences in the coming months after a 15-year pause, this time using ...
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After 15 years without executions, Louisiana ready to resume them using gas, Jeff Landry says
Louisiana has approved a protocol for executions by nitrogen hypoxia, which will allow death sentences to be carried out ...
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Louisiana to move forward with nitrogen gas executions, Landry says
That difficulty was part of the reason Louisiana lawmakers legalized the use of nitrogen gas and the electric chair as ...
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A new rule slashed how much prisons can charge for phone calls. Louisiana is challenging it.
The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state ...
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Young People Say They’re Beaten and Maced at Adult Louisiana Jail
Louisiana moved detained children from the infamous Angola prison to an adult lockup in Jackson Parish. They say the abuse ...
Fighting for the rights of the incarcerated has been her lifelong pursuit
In 2005, while she was a student at Yale Law School, Andrea Armstrong chose a summer internship that brought her to Louisiana ...
Louisiana resumes executions after 15-year pause, approves use of nitrogen gas method
Gov. Jeff Landry announced the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has implemented protocol to carry out death sentences using nitrogen gas.
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A new rule slashed how much prisons can charge for phone calls. Louisiana is challenging it.
The new rates vary by facility size and type. At the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola—and at all other state prisons—the rate may now be, at most, 6 cents a minute. That is expected to ...
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Baton Rouge disbands its mounted patrol division to save money
"You can tell when she's having a day" Chatman said, "I get ready to put a saddle on her and she can give me this little look ...
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La. Police Department Disbands Mounted Unit over Shrinking Budget
The Baton Rouge Police Department will save roughly $50,000 annually after disbanding its mounted division, which had been ...
‘The Alabama Solution’ Review: Andrew Jarecki’s Powerful Exposé of a Prison System Where Sanctified Lawlessness Is the Law
"The Alabama Solution" is one of the most powerful exposés of the inhumanity of the American prison system I’ve ever seen. Directed by Andrew Jarecki ("Capturing the Friedmans," "The Jinx") and ...
Rapides DA obtains death warrant for the “Cheneyville Slasher”
ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - Rapides Parish District Attorney Phillip Terrell has obtained a death warrant for death row inmate Larry Roy. Governor Jeff Landry announced on Monday the Department of Public ...