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A total of 28 people convicted of murder have been executed by the state of Louisiana since 1976. Of the 28 people executed, 20 were executed via electrocution and 8 via lethal injection. The most recent Louisiana inmate to be put to death, Gerald Bordelon, waived his appeals and asked the state to carry out his sentence. [1]
Louisiana's method of execution is lethal injection. Louisiana law stated that the execution method for death sentences prior to September 15, 1991 would use electrocution and those after would use lethal injection. [8] In 2024, Governor Jeff Landry signed a bill that adds two more methods of execution, with nitrogen gas and electrocution. [9] [10]
The forcible rape rate decreased 8.8% from 2011. Louisiana ranked 37th in the rate of forcible rape among U.S. states in 2012. Despite a 2.8% decrease in its murder rate for 2012, Louisiana had the highest murder rate among U.S. states at 10.8 homicides per 100,000 people.
Those who say the death penalty should be abolished pointed to the cost of executions, religious beliefs, racial disparities and Louisiana's exoneration rate — from 2010 to 2020, at least 22 ...
Since 1722, more than 650 people have been executed under the death penalty in Louisiana, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
In an effort to resume Louisiana’s death row executions that have been paused for 14 years, lawmakers on Friday advanced a bill that would add the use of nitrogen gas and electrocution as ...
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 moved a step closer to resuming death penalty executions for the first time in more than a decade after a House committee advanced a bill to expand the number of legal methods the state ...