Jessie Hoffman is scheduled to be the first death row inmate executed in Louisiana in 15 years. He was 18 years old when he kidnapped, raped, and murdered Molly Elliot. Before his crime, Hoffman fathered a son, Jessie Smith who says he didn’t get the opportunity to grow up with his father.
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Governor Jeff Landry says he will not stand in the way of Hoffman’s scheduled execution.
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Hoffman will be the first prisoner in Louisiana to die by nitrogen hypoxia.
A new statewide poll conducted by JMC Analytics and paid for by Unite America has found Louisiana voters overwhelmingly approve of an open primary voting system and only 34-percent are aware that next year’s Congressional elections will be a closed party primary. JMC Analytics Pollster John Couvillon says that means the primary will take place in the spring, instead of the fall…
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Councilman Oliver Thomas has thrown his hat in the New Orleans Mayoral race. University of New Orleans Political Scientist Dr. Edward Chervenek says Thomas is the third announced candidate. New Orleans City Council President Helena Moreno and Former Orleans Parish Judge Arthur Hunter are the other two. Chervenak says Thomas is well liked as he’s serving for a third time on the city council…
Thomas pleaded guilty in 2007 to accepting a bribe from a businessman while he was a city council member and served two years in a federal prison.