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Louisiana Lethal Injection Legislation

By Steve Hall

Louisiana's Lafourche Parish Daily Comet carries an AP dispatch, "Notes, quotes from the La. Legislature," which contains this brief item:The proposal (Senate Bill 554) would establish that rules governing the way death sentences are carried out aren't subject to the Louisiana Administrative Procedure Act, which requires a comment period and legislative review. It also would remove rules governing the daily operations of a prison from that required review as well.The Senate-backed bill by Rep. Elbert Guillory, D-Opelousas, was approved Tuesday by the House and Governmental Affairs Committee in a 12-2 vote. It heads next to the House for debate.A recent lawsuit filed on behalf of Nathaniel Code, of Shreveport, who was sentenced to death for the 1985 murders of four people, argued Louisiana's rules for execution by lethal injection didn't properly follow the Administrative Procedure Act...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 09, 2010 (boomark / email).