51 of Louisiana’s 57 death row inmates filed clemency applications with the Louisiana Board of Pardons in the hopes Governor John Bel Edwards will commute their death sentence to a life sentence. Edwards has made it known he opposes the death penalty. Cecelia Kappel, director of the Capital Appeals Project, represents many of the death row prisoners who filed the request….
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2010 was the last time Louisiana executed a death row inmate.

The National Security Agency (NSA) selects LSU as the first university in the country to create a cybersecurity clinic to help protect Louisiana small businesses from cyberattacks. LSU Economic Development director Greg Trahan (TRAH-hahn) says LSU was chosen among more than 400 eligible institutions…:
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The clinic will engage 45 LSU students starting in the spring of 2024.

Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon seems pleased, overall, with the insurance reforms passed by the Legislature this year…
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A 28-year-old woman is facing charges after she used a fraudulent passport and birth certificate to claim she was 17-years old, which allowed her to enroll as a student at Hahnville High School in St. Charles Parish. Martha Jessenia Gutierrez-Serrano and her 46-year-old mother were arrested for injuring public records.