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The United States District Court for the District of Louisiana was established on April 8, 1812, by 2 Stat. 701, [3] [4] several weeks before Louisiana was formally admitted as a state of the union. The District was thereafter subdivided and reformed several times.
Christopher Sepulvado, an 81-year-old Louisiana man who was scheduled to be executed, died Saturday night according to his lawyers, just days after a judge handed down an execution date ...
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.
Cole is a member of the Florida and Louisiana bars. [3] He previously served as Louisiana State College Republican Chair and as a member of the Federalist Society. [9] He is a past member of the Louisiana Baptist Convention's Committee on Moral and Social Concerns and was appointed to the Louisiana Service Commission by Governor Mike Foster.
Louisiana last carried out a death by electrocution 34 years ago. That method was abandoned after legal challenges became an issue, forcing the state to retire it. As of now, there is no set date ...
On May 10, 2019, Ronald Hardin Greene, an unarmed 49-year-old Black man, was killed after being arrested by Louisiana State Police following a high-speed chase outside Monroe, Louisiana. During the arrest, he was stunned, punched, pepper sprayed and placed in a chokehold. [ 1 ]
Christopher Sepulvado, the 81-year-old man who was facing execution next month for the 1992 murder of his stepson, died overnight at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, according to his attorney.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (in case citations, W.D. La.) is a United States federal court with jurisdiction over approximately two thirds of the state of Louisiana, with courts in Alexandria, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Monroe, and Shreveport. These cities comprise the Western District of Louisiana.