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The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Louisiana before 1972, when capital punishment was briefly abolished by the Supreme Court's ruling in Furman v. Georgia . For people executed by Louisiana after the restoration of capital punishment by the Supreme Court's ruling in Gregg v.
March 15, 1988 [d] Caddo: Shreveport Police Officer Glen Tompkins [3] Buddy Roemer: 17 Leslie Lowenfield: Black 34 M April 13, 1988 Jefferson: 5 murder victims [e] 18 Edward R. Byrne Jr. [f] White 28 M June 14, 1988 Bossier: Roberta June Johnson 19 Dalton Prejean: Black 30 M May 18, 1990 Lafayette: Louisiana State Police Trooper Donald ...
Virginia Eliza Clemm was born in 1822 [1] and named after an older sister who had died at age two [2] only ten days earlier. [3] Her father William Clemm, Jr. was a hardware merchant in Baltimore. [4] He had married Maria Poe, Virginia's mother, on July 12, 1817, [5] after the death of his first wife, Maria's first cousin Harriet. [6]
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 ...
Southdown Plantation was founded in 1828 by William John Minor, son of Stephen "Don Esteban" Minor, former secretary to the Spanish Governor of Louisiana, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos and James Dinsmore. [3] The land had first been a Spanish land grant and was later owned by brothers Jim and Rezin Bowie, [4] who began planting and harvesting indigo ...
Since 1722, more than 650 people have been executed under the death penalty in Louisiana, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Louisiana has 61 inmates on death row: Here's why no ...
Nathaniel Robert Code Jr. (born March 12, 1956) is an American serial killer and rapist who committed between eight and twelve murders in the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, between 1984 and 1987. Among his killings was the mass murder of four members of the Cheney-Culbert family on Cedar Grove in 1985, the crimes for which he was nicknamed The ...
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 ...