Louisiana executions stall for a decade amid legal quandary
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Death chambers in 12 of 29 states with legalized capital punishment have gone unused for more than a decade, said Robert Dunham, executive director of the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center. “Over the last 10 years, we believe Louisiana has seen a massive decline in its appetite for the death penalty,” said Mercedes Montagnes, executive director of the New Orleans-based Promise of Justice Initiative, which advocates for ending capital punishment. “There is a federal court stay on executions in Louisiana, and we also have an inability to acquire the drugs to use in lethal injections,” Edwards said during his reelection campaign. Louisiana lawmakers have repeatedly rejected efforts to end the state's use of capital punishment, even as the unofficial moratorium on executions has stretched over years.
As said here by MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press