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Operating Capital – Executions in Louisiana

This category investigates how the state’s death penalty system operates, examining its impact on justice, public policy, and the communities most affected by its reach.

Dark Resurrection

Prisoners come to terms with the return of capital punishment in Louisiana.
by John Corley April 4, 2025 Updated April 2, 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

The death penalty as seen by Glenn Ford

Glenn Ford taught me that every chance for life matters. It was easy to see why: prosecutors told the court Glenn was innocent 30 years after he was wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Death Row. Despite being sentenced to death, Glenn and others on the Row refused to forget their humanity.  
by Andrea Armstrong March 11, 2025 Updated March 27, 2025

Operating capital

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 staff March 11, 2025 Updated March 18, 2025

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