27 Dec 2023 12:31 am
Wow, instead of sweeping reforms and social outreach programs he is just going to send these animals back into society. You can't make this **** upPunch » 27 Dec 2023, 12:50 am » wrote: ↑
Dems, making the country a safe place.
Outgoing Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards pardons 40 murderers — including man who stabbed store worker 39 times (msn.com)
Louisiana’s outgoing Democratic governor pardoned 40 convicted murderers since October including one of whom had been on death row and another who fatally stabbed a woman 39 times.Gov. John Bel Edwards has been on a mission to help Louisiana lose the title of being the World’s Prison Capital and has signed the pardons to release 56 total convicts in five separate batches.
Edwards, whose term ends on Jan 8. 2024, campaigned to reduce the state’s prison population and is attempting to see some results in his final weeks in office. Eleven of the 40 jailed murderers were convicted in the first degree, or those who killed a human being with the specific intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm and engaged in the preparation of the crimes that led to the killing. In 2017, Edwards signed 10 criminal justice bills into law, which enabled hundreds of inmates to be released early from the prison system. One pardon involved a man who fatally stabbed a woman nearly 40 times. Nick Charles Nicholson, who also received a pardon, was found guilty of fatally stabbing convenience store worker Kelly Ann Gramm in 1981.Gramm was discovered with 39 stabbed wounds across her body, and a broken tip of a knife lodged in her skull.
The Louisiana State Penitentiary — Angola Prison is the largest high-security prison in the country. AP In Louisiana, suspects convicted of first-degree murder can face the death penalty if the district attorney seeks it, or “shall be punished by life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.”
Edwards was term-limited from running for the governor again after serving for eight years and will be succeeded by Jeff Landry, who recently served as the state’s attorney general. APIn 2021, Louisiana led the US with the highest incarcerations per capita.The vast number of imprisonments had most US states on the list before an actual country, with the US being the first at 664 prisoners per capita and El Salvador listed at 562.
