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submitted 11 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

This guy has a real hard on for executions.

Earlier this year, the dozens of inmates on Louisiana’s death row had a glimmer of hope: In April, Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, used his last state of the state address to call on the legislature to abolish executions. He declared them exorbitantly expensive, difficult to administer, and often wrong, pointing to more than 50 reversals of sentences and six full exonerations of death row inmates in the last 20 years.... But, in Louisiana, the governor does not have sole authority to commute death sentences; granting clemency requires the approval of the Louisiana Board of Pardons and Committee on Parole. In July, the board, acting on advice from Attorney General [and now Governor-Elect] Landry, denied all 56 petitions outright and en masse.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 66 points 11 months ago

I bet this guy calls himself a Christian and pro-life.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

The game for fascists is to use titles to cover the flaws, so go exactly opposite meaning: pro-death and godless.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Let's not equate godlessness with evil given the many decent non-religious types out there.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

True. Folks that believe in God but do not follow are godless. The rest of us understand there is no afterlife or creator for it so the idea of a god is not a consideration. We are not godless as there is no god to have.

That man believes there is a god and anti god. His support is not with the god he believes exists.

[-] Jeff@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Aka evil. Call them what they are.

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I'll bet he likes taking "donor's" bribe money too, Jesus did say you needed a lot of money to buy a penthouse in supply side heaven, after all.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Attorney General and now Governor-Elect

So he won a race that he was in charge of, just like Kemp in Georgia.

Wanna bet that he too refused to recuse himself from election oversight duties and then actively cheated, also just like Kemp?

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

The state Secretary of State runs the elections in both those states (Kemp was indeed Secretary of State when he won the Gubernatorial election). I think there are 3 states who don't have a Secretary of State (Alaska, Hawaii, and Utah), but I don't think it falls to the Attorney General in any of them.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Oops, brainfart! My apologies!

Kemp still abused his SSoS office to cheat his ass off, though 🤷

[-] conc@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

He looks like green mile dude grown up

[-] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

Dude looks like an AI generated image of desantis.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world -2 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


For 56 of the state’s residents, the stakes of that contest were especially high: The elevation of Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a rabid defender of the death penalty, dramatically increases the odds they will soon be executed.

He declared them exorbitantly expensive, difficult to administer, and often wrong, pointing to more than 50 reversals of sentences and six full exonerations of death row inmates in the last 20 years.

In July, the board, acting on advice from Attorney General Landry, denied all 56 petitions outright and en masse.

“In filing these petitions and looking into these cases, it became clear to us that out of the 57 people on death row, each one of these guys and and one woman have extremely strong claims, ranging from intellectual disability, serious mental illness, childhood trauma, innocence, racism — every single one of them,” Trenticosta Kappel says.

“And the fact that the DAs and the AG fought so hard to prevent these cases from being heard just shows that they are afraid of the broken nature of the death penalty in Louisiana being exposed in front of the national audience.”

Five years ago, Landry sent a letter to the governor urging him to explore other options after a critical component of the drug cocktail used in lethal injections became unavailable.


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[-] citrusface@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Good try bot, but not quite.

[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I think this bot literally just chooses random sentences from the article.

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