It’s back to the drawing board for the legislature after the overwhelming defeat of Amendment 2, which would have substantially rewritten Article 7 of the state constitution. Amendment 2 was authored by Carencro Representative Julie Emerson. She concedes that because there were so many components to the amendment, fellow lawmakers had trouble answering all the questions surrounding it.

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Emerson says she took the broad rewrite approach because there had been so many changes to Article 7 over the years, so she wanted to basically wipe the slate clean and start fresh.

Jeremy Alford, the editor at LaPolitics-dot-com, says the outcome will likely have no impact on Governor Landry’s support.

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A 55-year-old cold case has finally been solved with the mother being arrested for the murder of her 16-month-old son in Sulphur.  Sean Richardson has more.

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Two more execution dates are set. 53-year-old Darrell Draughn is scheduled to die on May 28th for stabbing a Shreveport woman to death inside her own home, and 47-year-old Marcus Reed is slated to be executed June 4th for killing three young men who he had erroneously believed had stolen an X-Box from his ex-girlfriend’s home. Both will be executed by nitrogen hypoxia.