Louisiana is trying to get rid of the death penalty

It won't happen.

However, the death penalty is practically all but dead in Louisiana because parish governments don't want to pay the fees to move convicts sentenced in their parishes through the process. It's been over 8 year since we last imposed it.

The death penalty is incredibly expensive to carry out due to the appeals process and the fact that it basically requires an entirely duplicitous set of sentencing trials in order to get a death sentence and defeat all of those appeals. It takes like 30 years to put someone to death. It would be a lot cheaper to just skip that process and give them life without parole.

There's also a major national shortage of lethal injection drugs.

I think they should be reforming the appeals and sentencing process to cut down the cost rather than getting rid of the penalty.

But not for unborn tiny humans, right?

Frick them still.

It's all a moot point...they haven't put anyone to death in years. Wish they would though. Time to instill an eye for an eye. Why keep these murdering sons of bitches alive breathing good air?

I always find it interesting that so many "small govt conservatives" who trust the govt extremely little and assume it full of paid idiots, suddenly has full faith that this same govt will always execute only the guilty.

Its like some believe the state govt is so terrible that it must be right all the time.

Knowing what I know about the miscreants who run the district attorney's office in Jefferson Parish doing away with the death penalty is a step forward for the state.

The moment the first innocent man was put to death any support for the penalty should’ve been buried with him. I can’t fathom the mindset of a populace that doesn’t agree.