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Louisiana Considers Death Penalty Expansion

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"House panel approves serial killer condition," by Mark Ballard is in today's Baton Rouge Advocate.A House committee approved, without objection Tuesday, legislation to make serial killers more easily subject to the death penalty. Prem Burns, who prosecuted convicted killer Sean Vincent Gillis, of Baton Rouge, testified the state?s first-degree murder law requires an aggravating circumstance, such as murder during another crime or killing someone under the age of 12. Serial killers often murder without committing another aggravating crime, said Burns, the first assistant district attorney for the East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney?s Office.And:Gillis was convicted of first-degree murder but the jury deadlocked during the penalty phase, in which execution was sought, resulting in a mandatory life sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 03, 2009 (boomark / email).