David Hamilton

3 weeks ago | wbrz.com | David Hamilton |Sarah Lawrence

inNewsSource: WBRZNEW ROADS - Three Pointe Coupee Sheriff's Office employees were placed on leave without pay amid an investigation into how an inmate escaped the parish detention center. Crystal Palermo, 42, was arrested for drug charges but escaped from the detention center following her arrest on April 13. She was only reportedly on the run for a couple of hours before she was taken back into custody.

1 month ago | wbrz.com | Adam Burruss |David Hamilton

inNewsSource: WBRZBAKER - The Baker Police Department arrested four people who they believe rode their horses through a Baker Walmart on Tuesday night. Video posted to social media showed four people on horses riding through the Walmart in Baker. On Thursday, the horse riders were arrested after Mason Webb and a juvenile turned themselves in to the police. By Friday morning, all four horse riders turned themselves in to police and faced the same charges.

1 month ago | wbrz.com | Adam Burruss |David Hamilton

inNewsSource: WBRZBAKER - The Baker Police Department arrested two people who they believe rode their horses through a Baker Walmart on Tuesday night. Video posted to social media showed four people on horses riding through the Walmart in Baker. On Thursday, the horse riders were arrested after Mason Webb and a juvenile turned themselves in to the police. Webb, one of the riders, said there was no particular reason for them to go through Walmart and they just chose to do it one night.

1 month ago | wbrz.com | Kelly Kissel |David Hamilton

NEW ORLEANS — Both the Supreme Court of the United States and the Louisiana Supreme Court on Tuesday denied stay requests for a condemned prisoner who wants a chance to demonstrate that making him breathe in nitrogen gas as he silently meditates would violate his constitutional rights. The U.S. Supreme Court later denied Jessie Hoffman's eleventh hour appeal for a stay of execution and consideration of his religious practice claims.

1 month ago | wbrz.com | Kelly Kissel |David Hamilton

NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana Supreme Court has denied a stay request for a condemned prisoner just hours before his scheduled execution at the state penitentiary in Angola. In an unsigned 5-2 decision, the justices denied a stay for Jessie Hoffman, who is scheduled to die Tuesday night by nitrogen hypoxia. Hoffman says his execution could be torturous. Justice Jay McCallum wrote in a concurring opinion that the Constitution does not require that all executions be pain-free.