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The 1940 Louisiana legislature changed the method of execution, making execution by electrocution effective from June 1, 1941. Louisiana's electric chair did not have a permanent home at first, and was taken from parish to parish to perform the executions. The electrocution would usually be carried out in the courthouse or jail of the parish ...
Gerald James Bordelon (February 19, 1962 – January 7, 2010) [1] was an American convicted murderer and sex offender who was executed in Louisiana for murder. Bordelon was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Courtney LeBlanc, his 12-year-old stepdaughter.
Gerald James Bordelon – Executed in 2010 (last execution in Louisiana) [178] John A. Brown, Jr. – Executed in 1997 [178] Jimmy L. Glass – Executed in 1987 [178] Antonio G. James – Executed in 1996 [178] Andrew Lee Jones – Executed in 1991 (last execution via electric chair in Louisiana) [178] Leslie Lowenfield – Executed in 1998 [178]
Louisiana: 83–153 Black people killed at courthouse and as prisoners afterwards. [22] Coushatta massacre: 1874 Aug Coushatta: Louisiana: 11–26 Six whites, remainder black killed as political intimidation. [23] [24] Election riot of 1874: 1874 Nov 3 Eufaula: Alabama: 8 70 injured. White League Democrats drove African American Republicans ...
In Grateful Recognition of the Arduous and Faithful Service of the Good Darkies of Louisiana [4] The bronze statue was commissioned in 1927 by Jackson Lee "Jack" Bryan, a cotton planter and businessman. It was executed by Hans Schuler and installed in a park on the river in downtown Natchitoches.
[2] [10] Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976, Williams was the first person to be executed in Louisiana, and the tenth in the United States. [11] He was also the second black person to be executed in the United States since 1976, as well as the first person to be executed for killing a black victim. [2] [7] [12]
Robert Lee Willie (January 2, 1958 – December 28, 1984) was an American serial killer who killed at least three people in Louisiana from the late 1970s to 1980. He was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of 18-year-old Faith Hathaway and was executed in 1984.
The plantation grounds was the site of the Battle of Buzzard's Prairie, October 15, 1863. [5] A part of General Nathaniel P. Banks' Army of the Gulf, led by Maj. General William B. Franklin, was on an expedition across Louisiana as part of the invasion of Texas that included Brig. Gen. Stephen Burbridge's 4th Division, 13th Corps, Brig. General Godfrey Weitzel's 1st Division, 19th Corps, and ...