Kelly Kissel
Managing Editor at WBRZ-TV (Baton Rouge, LA)
After 34 yrs at Associated Press, now Managing Editor at WBRZ-Baton Rouge (my mom worked here!). LSU/Reveille. Longtime football/soccer referee.
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2 weeks ago |
wbrz.com | Kelly Kissel
BAKER — Impact Charter School's 442 students may need a new place to finish out the school year after the school's former leader filed an eviction notice for non-payment of rent. The former operator of Impact Charter School Chakesha Scott says a new board that voted to remove her hasn't paid rent since February and must leave the premises by next Tuesday.
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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.
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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.
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1 month ago |
wbrz.com | Kelly Kissel
BATON ROUGE — A judge has opened a hearing on whether Louisiana can asphyxiate a condemned prisoner Tuesday night without violating his religious rights as a Buddhist who practices meditative breathing to remain calm. Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to die by nitrogen hypoxia between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola for the 1996 kidnapping, rape and murder of a New Orleans advertising executive.
Louisiana says federal court shouldn't give inmate more time to claim right to a non-cruel execution
1 month ago |
wbrz.com | Kelly Kissel
BATON ROUGE — Louisiana's attorney general said Wednesday a federal judge was wrong to give a condemned prisoner additional time to claim under the U.S. Constitution that asphyxiating him with nitrogen gas might be a cruel or unusual punishment. Without ruling on the merit of his claim, U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick said Tuesday that Jessie Hoffman deserved a chance to argue that Louisiana had access to means of execution that would invoke less psychological terror.
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