Louisiana clerks of court who turn away gay couples seeking a marriage license could face lawsuits for refusing to do so. Eric Gill reports…:
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An associate professor at LSU lost her job for cussing and telling inappropriate sexual jokes to students. University administrators claim by doing this, Teresa Buchanan was creating a hostile learning environment. But the 20-year veteran of LSU plans to fight this in court saying she is the victim of a witch hunt. Buchanan specializes in early childhood education.

The US Supreme Court rules a controversial drug called midazolam (mid-da-zo-lam) can be used for lethal injections. Gary Clements, an anti-death penalty lawyer in New Orleans, is disappointed with the ruling, because the sedative did not perform like it should have in executions in Arizona, Ohio and Oklahoma…:
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Last week, a federal judge in Baton Rouge put on hold any execution in Louisiana until July of 2016, until the state determines how they will carry out a death sentence.

A man from Shreveport who was exonerated last year when new evidence came to light that he was not the person who murdered a jeweler in 1983 has died of cancer. 65-year-old Glenn Ford walked free out of Angola in March of 2014 after 29 years on death row. He was diagnosed with lung cancer soon after. He passed early this morning.