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The office of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry released a summary of the state's updated execution protocol on Monday alongside a pledge to move forward with the death penalty for the first time since 2010.
James's execution was the subject of an ABC News documentary on Prime Time Live. In the UK the BBC broadcast a 40-minute piece on 18 April 1996 on Radio 4 about this case, with particular reference to the role of the British lawyer Clive Stafford Smith in providing adequate defence for such cases.
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 hasn’t carried out a death row execution since 2010, but between a new conservative governor who is in favor of capital punishment and other states implementing alternative methods to ...
Louisiana has about 60 prisoners on death row. Landry called the death sentences a "contractual obligation to victims." "I and the Legislature are going to fulfill our commitments," he said.
When he entered Louisiana State Prison (Angola), he was the youngest person on death row. In 1976 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Roberts v. Louisiana that the state's death penalty law was unconstitutional, as it required mandatory sentences for convictions of certain capital charges, without consideration of mitigating factors.
Louisiana is one of 27 states where the death penalty still exists, though it's been 13 years since a prisoner was executed because corrections officials say they've been unable to secure the ...
Follows the case of death row inmate Daniel Lee Lopez, who was convicted of murdering a Corpus Christi city police officer by hitting him with his SUV as he was trying to evade capture following a routine traffic stop. The programme follows, Lopez, his family and city officials in the weeks and months leading up to and after his execution.