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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 ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. 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.
Leslie Dale Martin (April 24, 1967 – May 10, 2002) [1] was an American convicted murderer who was executed by the state of Louisiana for the June 1991 rape and murder of 19-year-old Christina Burgin. [1] He remains the most recent person executed involuntarily in Louisiana. [2] [3]
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.
Was kidnapped and killed by far-right paramilitary squads, due to his opposition to any intervention of the armed forces to block the election of left-wing candidate Salvador Allende in 1970. 1971: Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, former Secretary of Interior Affairs 1973: Victor Jara, left-wing singer Killed after the coup of 1973. 1982
The crash was one of several accidents in the area due to heavy fog, police said. St John Sheriff Mike Tregre said that there was a total of 25 crashes on the road, involving three 18-wheel trucks ...
CBC Tower, Shawinigan, QC, Canada April 27, 2001: Guyed steel lattice mast 331.5 (307.1 + 24.4 (structure + antenna)) Controlled implosion after aircraft crash caused serious damage five days earlier Rebuilt in 2003, the new tower has almost the same height, i.e. 326.8 m (307.1 m for the structure, but the antenna is shorter (19.7 m)).
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 ...