Published: February 22, 2024
By: Jordyn Wilson, LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE — In a continuing flood of criminal justice legislation, a Louisiana House committee approved a bill that would keep secret the means and methods of execution of a death-row inmate.
The 12-5 vote by the House and Governmental Affairs committee follows action elsewhere in the Capitol on Tuesday that expanded capital punishment to include electrocution and injection of nitrogen hypoxia. The state’s new governor, Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, said he wants to resume capital punishment. He called the state Legislature into a special session on crime until early March.
The governor wants to address a public outcry over shootings, carjackings and violent crimes, and to roll back part of an overhaul of criminal justice measures taken by the Legislature several years ago under former Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat.
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