Antoinette Frank, the infamous New Orleans police officer and the only woman facing execution in Louisiana, will argue for mercy along with four condemned men on Friday as the Louisiana Board of Pardons weighs clemency hearings for the first in a historic batch of pleas from death-row.
For the first time in his 16-year political career, Louisiana state Sen. Patrick Connick is facing an opponent at the ballot box, with Jean Lafitte Mayor Timothy Kerner, Jr. vying
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The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday threw out a 2-year-old law that authorized district attorneys to confect post-conviction plea deals with prisoners to reduce or end their sentences for whatever
After 12 years behind bars, Markus Lanieux thought he had a deal for his release. Then Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry filed a legal challenge that could derail hope for those imprisoned under the state's "three strikes" sentencing rules.