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Major James oversaw the Louisiana Corrections system for the next 31 years. [20] From 1901 until 1916, Corrections was operated by the Board of Control, a three-member panel appointed by the governor of Louisiana. One of the first actions taken by the new board was the purchase of the 8,000-acre (32 km 2) Angola Plantation. New camps were built ...
Christopher Sepulvado (November 11, 1943 – February 22, 2025) was an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to death in Louisiana for the 1992 murder of his six-year-old stepson, Wesley Allen Mercer, who was beaten with a screwdriver and scalded to death.
Montgomery v. Louisiana, 577 U.S. 190 (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that its previous ruling in Miller v. Alabama (2012), [1] that a mandatory life sentence without parole should not apply to persons convicted of murder committed as juveniles, should be applied retroactively.
Native American activist and federal prisoner Leonard Peltier, who has maintained his innocence in the murders of two FBI agents almost half a century ago, is due for a full parole hearing Monday ...
Sep. 29—BEVERLY — A convicted killer who was granted parole on his fifth try, then released from custody a year early due to the coronavirus pandemic, is now suing the Parole Board, saying he ...
Todd Kelvin Wessinger (born November 28, 1967) is an American convicted murderer sentenced to death for the murders of two restaurant employees in Louisiana. On November 19, 1995, Wessinger committed an armed robbery at a local Baton Rouge restaurant, where Wessinger used to work as a dishwasher, and during the robbery, Wessinger shot and killed two of his former co-workers, David Breakwell ...
NEWSY'S TAMMY ESTWICK: 77-year-old Henry Montgomery went to prison at the age of 17 after killing a plainclothes police officer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Right now, you can see we're outside of ...
New Jersey State Parole Board; New Mexico Parole Board [12] New York State Division of Parole; Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board; Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole; Rhode Island Parole Board [13] South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services; Tennessee Board of Parole; Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles; Utah Board ...