2/10/20 The Lens Louisiana’s death penalty violates conservative values
2/6/20 The Advocate Guest column: I was exonerated from death row, I know capital punishment doesn’t work
2/6/20 Fox News talk radio E. King talks death penalty
2/6/20 Louisiana Radio Network New conservative group focuses on doing away with death penalty in Louisiana
2/6/20 The Advocate Louisiana Republican conservatives band to abolish capital punishment
1/7/20 Mid-City Messenger Sister Helen Prejean commemorates 10 years without any executions in Louisiana (video)
1/7/20 WAFB Community gathers on day marking 10 years since last execution in Louisiana
1/6/20 WGNO Vigil in New Orleans observing 10 years since Louisiana’s last execution
9/4/19 Facing South Momentum to abolish the death penalty picks up among conservatives
8/10/19 New York Times Sister Helen Explains It All For You
7/22/19 KPEL Criminal justice reform savings save Louisiana $12+ million
6/23/19 The Times-Picayune ‘When They See Us’ could apply to Louisiana, too
6/22/19 The Associated Press Court tosses black man’s murder conviction over racial bias
6/10/19 Louisiana Radio Network Death penalty abolitionists increasingly optimistic
5/28/19 The Advocate Proposal to hide source of execution drugs killed by Louisiana Senate panel
5/25/19 The Advocate James Gill: Are Louisiana Republicans having a change of heart on the death penalty?
5/24/19 The Associated Press Louisiana House ends death penalty ban debate without vote
5/23/19 The Advocate Our Views: Don’t shroud Louisiana’s death penalty drug providers in secrecy
5/23/19 The Advocate House lawmakers debate Louisiana’s death penalty, but cast no votes
5/15/19 WVLA Bill to end Louisiana’s death penalty edges toward state House
5/14/19A Fox News A Group Of Conservatives Is Fighting The Death Penalty
5/14/19 Associated Press Louisiana House to debate whether to abolish death penalty
5/10/19 Shreveport Times Death penalty is an appeasement to a blood-thirsty mob
5/9/19 The Advocate Our Views: Don’t shield lethal injection in secrecy
5/6/19 Louisiana Watchdog Report: Louisiana spends $15.6 million per year to maintain death penalty
5/3/19 WWLTV Death penalty in La.: $200 million spent, 1 execution in 15 years, says study
5/2/19 The Advocate Cost of Louisiana’s death penalty is $15.6 million per year, new study says
5/2/19 KTBS Slow wheels of justice: A look at capital punishment in Louisiana
4/30/19 The Advocate Effort to abolish Louisiana death penalty begins again in State Capitol
4/30/19 Associated Press Bid to ban the death penalty in Louisiana advances in the Senate
4/27/19 The Crux Louisiana bishop urges state to put an end to the death penalty
4/25/19 The Advocate Religious leaders support end to death penalty in Louisiana
4/24/19 Louisiana Public Broadcasting The Penalty of Death
4/24/19 The Advocate Catholic bishop: Louisiana should end the death penalty
4/18/19 The Advocate Sister Helen Prejean: Holy Week should inspire Louisiana residents to end the death penalty
4/16/19 Bossier Press-Tribune Survey shows growing support for criminal justice reform in Louisiana
4/11/19 WAFB 9 Former death row inmates calls for end of death penalty in Louisiana
3/27/19 BR Proud Democrat and Republican file bills to end death penalty in Louisiana
3/18/19 The Hayride Criminal Justice Reform Conference at Tulane Celebrates Accomplishments On The Issue
3/15/19 KPEL Bill to abolish death penalty in Louisiana to be introduced
3/15/19 Daily Comet Our Opinion: death penalty needs discussion, not partisanship
3/13/19 News Star Bill to abolish Louisiana death penalty coming; California governor halts executions
3/7/19 The Lens A young conservative makes the case for ending Louisiana’s death penalty
2/27/19 Crux Pope says Church’s teaching on death penalty has ‘matured’
2/11/19 The Louisiana Weekly The quest to do away with Louisiana’s death penalty
2/4/19 The Hill Red states move to end the death penalty
1/28/19 The Lens Death penalty repeal gaining momentum — but needs your support
1/3/19 The American Press Our View: Support for death penalty declining
12/30/18 The Advocate Death sentences drastically decline; report says there was ‘a sea change in public opinion’
12/18/8 Catholic Herald Pope Francis: Death penalty a ‘legalistic’ value, not a Christian one
Nov/Dec The American Conservative A Dying Shame: The state is not God, and the death penalty is not infallible.
11/7/18 The Hill Louisiana ends Jim Crow-era law, will now require unanimous juries for all felony convictions
11/5/18 Uptown Messenger Conservative-led effort to abolish death penalty headed to Louisiana, activists say
10/11/18 USA Today: Death knell for capital punishment? Washington becomes 20th state to ban executions
8/9/18 The American Conservative: The Conservative Case Against the Death Penalty
8/2/18 CNN: Pope declares death penalty inadmissible, changes Church’s stance
7/26/18 The Advocate: Death penalty doesn’t help fight crime
7/23/18 Times Picayune: Conservative doesn’t mean supporting death penalty
4/11/2018: Laverne Thompson and Sister Alison McCrary Testimony on LA HB 162
4/10/18 Press Release: Louisiana Senate Committee Passes Bipartisan Bill to Repeal the Death Penalty a Second Year in a Row
4/10/18 The Times-Picayune: “Louisiana proposal to end death penalty clears Senate committee”
3/6/18: Louisiana Interchurch Conference affirms opposition to the death penalty
Rodricus Crawford, at the Capitol in Baton Rouge, on March 27, 2018 supporting Justice Reform and ending the death penalty.
4/2/18 The Advocate: Lawmakers Should Prevent Wrongful Executions by Louisiana Death Row exoneree Michael Graham
Louisianans Prefer Life Sentences Over the Death Penalty by 2 to 1 Margin
5/11/17 The Advocate:Death penalty deters crime? Facts and most criminologists beg to differ
Over 100 Religious Leaders speak out over unjust imposition of death penalty for Rodricus Crawford – Crawford eventually exonerated!
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