Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R)
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit from a death row inmate challenging the constitutionality of Louisiana’s execution methods. Judge Shelly Dick ruled that since Louisiana is not able to obtain the drugs needed to carry out an execution, there was nothing to settle. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is glad the death penalty litigation was dismissed.
“I think that now paves the way for the state to enact some laws that allow these executions to move forward,” said Landry.
Louisiana has not carried out a death sentence since Gerald Bordelon in 2010, who voluntarily dropped his appeals so he can be put the death for the murder of his 12-year-old stepdaughter. Landry says if Louisiana is having trouble getting drugs to carry out an execution, they can protect the identity of the drugmaker.
“So they are not badgered by the left, which is what both the left and some media outlets do in order to badger those pharmacists for providing drugs for the execution,” said Landry.
In 2018, Landry drafted proposed legislation that would expand the methods of execution and expand confidentiality protections and he’s willing to discuss these proposals again with state lawmakers so the carrying out of death sentences can resume in Louisiana.
“That’s a contractual relationship that the state made with the victims in the state and those victims’ families deserve justice,” said Landry.
But not everyone supports the death penalty in Louisiana. New Orleans Representative Kyle Green has a bill in this session that would abolish the death penalty.
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