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In Louisiana

By Steve Hall

"Louisiana has seen dramatic decline in executions, in line with national trend," is the title of the New Orleans Times-Picayne report written by Michelle Krupa and Katy Reckdahl. In 1987, eight men were electrocuted at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola within the span of eleven weeks, during a decade when 18 state inmates were executed for crimes they committed.But the past 10 years, have been quiet ones for Louisiana's death row, with three inmates put to death by lethal injection. The most recent, Thursday's execution of Gerald Bordelon, happened only because the convicted killer waived his appeals, hastening his death by many years. His was the first execution since 2002, when Leslie Dale Martin was executed for the rape and murder of a Lake Charles woman in 1981...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 11, 2010 (boomark / email).