Kat Stromquist

1 week ago | krvs.org | Kat Stromquist

At least three bills in the 2025 legislative session that began Monday touch on capital punishment, aiming to refine processes amid a press by Louisiana officials to carry out more death sentences. Two bills filed thus far have provisions that concern who can be present when a person on death row is killed. The issue played a prominent role in the case of Jessie Hoffman Jr., whose lawyers argued unsuccessfully for the ability to attend his execution last month.

4 weeks ago | veritenews.org | Bobbi-Jeanne Misick |Kat Stromquist

Amid calls from President Donald Trump for a nationwide immigration crackdown and an end to so-called “sanctuary” policies, at least two Louisiana law enforcement agencies have recently joined forces with federal immigration authorities, enlisting local officers to identify and detain undocumented immigrants in their custody.

4 weeks ago | wwno.org | Kat Stromquist

A district judge won't stand in the way of votes being counted in a legal challenge to two of four amendments to Louisiana's Constitution that appear on Saturday's ballot, but said the case can otherwise move forward. The case, brought this month by several voter plaintiffs and the group Voice of the Experienced — which is led by formerly incarcerated people — largely objects to processes by which Amendments 1 and 3 made it to voters.

1 month ago | mpbonline.org | Kat Stromquist

Louisiana has carried out its first execution in more than a decade, killing Jessie Hoffman Jr. with a new nitrogen gas method that unlatches possibilities for the state to somedaycarry out the sentences of 55 people now living on death row. With Tuesday night’s execution, Louisiana becomes the second state to use the gas method, which has stoked controversy among some experts and horrified death penalty opponents and other advocates.

1 month ago | wbhm.org | Kat Stromquist

Louisiana has carried out its first execution in more than a decade, killing Jessie Hoffman Jr. with a new nitrogen gas method that unlatches possibilities for the state to somedaycarry out the sentences of 55 people now living on death row. With Tuesday night’s execution, Louisiana becomes the second state to use the gas method, which has stoked controversy among some experts and horrified death penalty opponents and other advocates.