A state prison spokeswoman says officials can’t get the necessary drug for an execution scheduled in nine days, so they’ve added an option for a two-drug mix that caused concern after a drawn-out execution in Ohio earlier this month.
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Della Hasselle, a freelance journalist and producer, reports environmental and criminal justice stories for The Lens. A graduate of Benjamin Franklin High School and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Hasselle lived in New York for 10 years. While up north, she produced and anchored news segments, wrote feature stories and reported breaking news for DNAinfo.com, a hyperlocal news site. Before that, she worked at the New York Daily News. She obtained her master
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Audubon will be stuck in modulars for another year because of contractor’s error
The Lower School was supposed to move back to its Broadway campus this summer.
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State has explored illegally obtaining drug for upcoming execution
Just-released email shows state prison official was in touch with Oklahoma pharmacy not licensed in Louisiana, and that pharmacy wanted a confidentiality agreement. As of Friday, the state still didn’t have lethal-injection drug for a scheduled Feb. 5 execution.
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State is late in getting lethal-injection drug; potential supplier kept secret
State rules show execution drug should be at Angola, but state still working to find a supplier.
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John McDonogh High School to close at end of the school year
It looks like Future Is Now won’t get the school back when it reopens.
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Adjacent lot eyed by Warren Easton carries a pricetag of about $2 million
OPSB and charter foundation may share cost of property purchase.
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With lethal-injection drugs hard to get, states turning to custom pharmacies
Prison officials in other states have turned to compounding pharmacies, long used to fill custom-mixed drugs, to get the drug needed for executions. Louisiana’s next execution is scheduled for Feb. 5, and it’s not clear whether the state has the necessary drug, or whether it may seek a pharmacist willing to make a special batch.
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Killer gets new execution date, but state might not have lethal-injection drug then
Prison disposed of expired drug that was to be used March 7, and drug maker prohibits new sales for executions.
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Morris Jeff staying under Recovery School District governance
It was one of 17 schools that have the option of returning to Orleans Parish School Board oversight.
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Morris Jeff will vote tonight on return to Orleans school board
Meeting is at 7 p.m., preceded by a 6 p.m. community-comment period.