A jury has decided 47-year-old Brian Horn should die by lethal injection for killing 12-year-old Justin Bloxom of Stonewall. Justin’s lifeless body was found along a highway in Desoto Parish in 2010. Desoto District Attorney Charlie Adams says Horn was convicted before in 2014, but the state Supreme Court vacated the conviction over concerns his lawyers infringed on his Sixth Amendment right to effective counsel. Adams says his attorney in the second trial used the same strategy, having Horn admit guilt in the hopes of avoiding the death sentence…:
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Horn was the driver of that cab and strangled Bloxom after the cab ran out of gas on U-S Highway 171 in Stonewall.
As expected, Governor Edwards has vetoed a bill that would have banned transgender medical procedures on minors. In his veto statement, Edwards says the Stop Hurting Our Kids act will do just that, and there’s no evidence any such surgeries have ever been done here. The veto could be overridden by the House & Senate, if enough lawmakers vote to come back to Baton Rouge.
Approval of the Alzheimer’s medication Leqembi (lah-kem’-bee) is a historic advancement in the treatment of the brain-robbing disease. Brooke Thorington has more…:
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A Baton Rouge man, arrested this week for allegedly beating a local woman to death, has a history of violence toward women and multiple restraining orders against him. 35-year-old Cedrick Lang is charged with 2nd-degree murder for the death of 42-year-old Rachel Johnson on Monday. His bond has not yet been set.