Governor Jeff Landry tells the Louisiana Legislature that it’s time to end the criminal minded element destroying Louisiana. On the opening day of the special session, Landry laid out his agenda for the crime fighting special session. Early in his speech, he spoke about his desire to restart executions of death row inmates…
“Capital punishment is lawful and we intend to fulfil our legal duty to resume it for the justice of these families.”
Landry supports a bill that would shield from the public the names of drug companies that provide chemicals to carry out a lethal injection. He also wants to expand the methods for carrying out an execution to include the electric chair and Nitrogen hypoxia.
Landry say he’s heard a lot criticism from prosecutors, judges and others about the leniency of sentencing. He says right now up to 70-percent of a sentence may be removed for good time and the good time requires no effort of the inmate to participate in educational, job training or rehabilitation services…
“The good time is rewarded to these inmates really with no effort on their part its like a participation trophy for jail.”
Landry also wants to see lawmakers approve a bill that results in stronger penalties for convicted carjackers. He’s calling for the minimum jail time to increase from two to five years and a minimum of 20 years if the victim is seriously hurt physically. He had this message for a person looking to carjack a vehicle…
“The better hope the car is full of gas. It can take them where we can never find them. Because when we do, they will spend a long long time in jail.”
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