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It’s not a teacher raise, voices against Amendment 2 emphasize

As Louisiana restarts executions, stories about the state’s death penalty — from condemned men, victims, families, and those who work in the death chamber.
by Lens contributors March 29, 2025 Updated March 29, 2025

Our kids deserve better: vote NO on 3

"Accountability is about helping someone take responsibility and change," Malcolm Jenkins writes "It’s about making sure they never go back down that same road again. And for kids, that only works when you treat them like kids."
by Malcolm Jenkins March 28, 2025 Updated March 27, 2025
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Behind the Lens episode 269: ‘They are not forgotten’

by Carolyne Heldman March 28, 2025 Updated March 28, 2025
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Behind the Lens episode 266 Carnival Part II: ‘The best spot on Fat Tuesday’

Mizani Ball on family and friends settling in to their traditional parade watching spots on the route. Katy Reckdahl on a Black Masking Indian continuing his father's tradition.
by Carolyne Heldman March 27, 2025 Updated March 27, 2025

Big boots to fill

Anthony Hingle Jr. didn’t touch beads or feathers for 32 years. Now he’s back in town, continuing the work of his father, Flagboy Meathead, a legend among Black Masking Indians.
by Katy Reckdahl March 26, 2025 Updated March 26, 2025
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Behind The Lens episode 268: ‘Cruel and unusual’

Special guest Ned Randolph on Entergy's proposal to build a massive AI data center in an impoverished section of north Louisiana that Meta is eyeing. Nick Chrastil on the state's push to use nitrogen hypoxia for executions.
by Carolyne Heldman March 21, 2025 Updated March 21, 2025

Explaining Jessie Hoffman

People still say, ‘That’s not the Jessie I knew.’ But most didn’t know what he endured at home – and that’s likely what drove him on that day, psychiatrists say.
by Katy Reckdahl March 18, 2025 Updated March 26, 2025

Who gets hurt by an execution?

by Denny LeBoeuf March 17, 2025 Updated March 17, 2025

The doctor defending Louisiana’s controversial execution method

Dr. Joseph Antognini travels across the nation, being paid over $500 an hour by government officials who rely on him to vouch for their execution protocols.
by Nick Chrastil March 17, 2025 Updated March 18, 2025

Firing up the chamber of death

by Clive Stafford Smith March 14, 2025 Updated March 17, 2025

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