Entries tagged with “Marcus Reed”

Executions

Feb 17, 2026

Louisiana Supreme Court Unanimously Sides with Two Death-Sentenced Prisoners Targeted with Premature Execution Warrants

When Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill took office in January 2024, they moved aggres­sive­ly to restart exe­cu­tions in the state. Gov. Landry signed bills that autho­rized nitro­gen suf­fo­ca­tion and elec­tro­cu­tion as exe­cu­tion meth­ods, increased his own pow­er over the state cap­i­tal defense sys­tem, and lim­it­ed post-con­vic­­tion appeals, while AG Murrill moved to take over cap­i­tal appeal chal­lenges from local dis­trict attor­neys. In March 2025,…

Executions

Apr 25, 2025

Premature Execution Warrants in Louisiana Deny Death-Sentenced Prisoners Due Process and Fair Consideration of Constitutional Claims

The Supreme Court has con­sis­tent­ly held that​“death is dif­fer­ent”: the​“qual­i­ta­tive dif­fer­ence between death and oth­er penal­ties calls for a greater degree of reli­a­bil­i­ty when the death sen­tence is imposed.” As a result, cap­i­tal defen­dants pur­sue a series of manda­to­ry and dis­cre­tionary appeals to ensure that mis­takes of con­sti­tu­tion­al sig­nif­i­cance are iden­ti­fied and cor­rect­ed. However, death-sen­­tenced pris­on­ers in Louisiana recent­ly argued that the…