“You Come Out a Stranger”: Exonerees Describe Life After Wrongful Conviction
BATON ROUGE, La. – Thirteen men who collectively spent 644 years in Louisiana prisons for crimes they didn’t commit gathered earlier this month at the...
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A Return to the Death Penalty: Louisiana’s Experiment with Nitrogen Hypoxia
Louisiana is on the brink of resuming capital punishment after a 15-year hiatus. But rather than relying on lethal injection, the state has opted for...
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How Legal Medical Marijuana Consumption in the “Sportsman’s Paradise” Can Lead to Incarceration
The State of Louisiana has one of the highest incarceration rates in the United States.[1] Black people in Louisiana are about 3 times as likely...
