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Louisiana State Penitentiary is the location of the State of Louisiana's male death row and execution chamber. Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Despite remaining a legal penalty, there have been no executions in Louisiana since 2010, and no involuntary executions since 2002.
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]
Sumner v. Shuman, 483 U.S. 66 (1987) – Mandatory death penalty for a prison inmate who is convicted of murder while serving a life sentence without possibility of parole is unconstitutional. Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for child rape and other non-homicidal crimes against the person.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407 (2008), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibits the imposition of the death penalty for a crime in which the victim did not die and the victim's death was not intended.
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 ...