LA Second Highest Rate of Women Killed by Men in the U.S.

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Only Alaska exceeds Louisiana in the rate of women murdered by men according to a data analysis by the Violence Policy Center.

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Louisiana ranked second in 2016 in the center's annual "When Men Murder Women" report, and the state has ranked in the top 10 for the past six years.

According to the Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence the report reveals the state has failed to make the progress seen in the rest of the nation with a females murdered by males homicide rate of 2.15 per 100,000 — double the national average.

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The report relies on data from 2014, the most recent year for which information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Supplementary Homicide report is available. Advocates are hopeful future years will show a decline in deaths statewide due to laws that went into effect in the latter half of 2014, including legislation restricting firearm access for domestic abusers.

"Unfortunately, these new laws were not in effect for the first seven months of 2014," Meeks said in a statement. "We know that with proper implementation these laws will have an impact on our homicide rate here in Louisiana."

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For the past 20 years, The Wellspring has tracked domestic violence information for the region. In 2011, a 70 percent reduction in domestic violence homicides was realized, and the drop has remained consistent for the past four years.

For comparison, over the 19 years the "When Men Murder Women" report has been published, the number of women murdered by men has dropped 31 percent nationwide, from 1.57 percent per 100,000 in 1996 to 1.08 per 100,000 in 2014.

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In Louisiana, 51 women were murdered by men in 2015. In crimes with an identified weapon, 63 percent of victims were shot and killed with guns. Of those, 45 percent were killed with handguns.

Ninety-four percent of the victims were killed by someone they knew, and 73 percent of those were killed by a husband, common-law husband, ex-husband or boyfriend. in most instances, the shooting occurred separate from the commission of any other felony crime and most involved arguments between the victim and the shooter.

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Nationwide, for homicides in which the circumstances could be identified, 83 percent of the homicides were not related to the commission of another felony. Most often, females were killed by males in the course of an argument between the victim and the offender.

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10 states with the highest rate of females murdered by males in single victim/single offender incidents in 2014

Alaska, 3.15 per 100,000

Louisiana, 2.15 per 100,000

Nevada, 1.98 per 100,000

Oklahoma, 1.94 per 100,000

South Carolina, 1.73 per 100,000

New Mexico, 1.71 per 100,000

South Dakota, 1.65 per 100,000

Georgia, 1.62 per 100,000

Tennessee, 1.58 per 100,000

Texas, 1.44 per 100,000

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