WalletHub has named 2024’s Best and Worst States for Women and the news is not good for Louisiana. Colleen Crain has the story…
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The Louisiana Legislature is moving closer to changing a law that would lower the age a person charged with a felony can be charged as an adult. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Legislation to expand methods to carry out the death penalty Senate Judiciary Monday. Brooke Thorington has more.
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WalletHub has named 2024’s Best and Worst States for Women and the news is not good for Louisiana. Using 25 key metrics the survey ranked Louisiana 50 out of 51 states and the District of Columbia. Louisiana is second from the bottom for women living in poverty and 46th for women suffering from depression. Analyst, Cassie Happe, believes they’re connected…
Women of the Bayou State also ranked near the bottom for metrics including life expectancy at birth, female homicides, and high school graduation rates. The number of Louisiana women influencing policy is disappointing says Happe as the share of women who voted in the 2020 presidential election ranked 46…
Since 2015 WalletHub has released their report on the Best and Worst States for Women annually, just before Women’s History Month begins in March. This year, Louisiana dropped from 49 to 50 followed only by Oklahoma. Happe says, the report highlights important issues.
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Senate-approved legislation that would lower the age a person can be charged with a felony as an adult from 18 to 17 has advanced out of the House Criminal Justice Committee. Louisiana Sheriffs Association executive director Michael Ranatza says 17-year-olds offenders at juvenile justice facilities are causing serious problems…
18th Judicial District Attorney Tony Clayton is pushing hard for this law because he says there are 17-years-olds committing crimes knowing they will only serve a few years at a juvenile facility and then they are free. Clayton says some 17-year-olds need to remain behind bars after they turn 21…
Meghan Garvey with the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers spoke against the bill. Garvey argues non-violent 17-year-olds should stay in the juvenile justice system because the offender’s parents are more involved in the rehabilitation process…
The measure heads to the Senate floor for more discussion.
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A bill to expand methods to carry out the death penalty and to provide protections for those involved, like drug companies that provide the ingredients used for lethal injection, passed in Senate Judiciary C Monday. Committee members heard from those in favor, like Howard Vincent, whose brother, Steven Vincent a state trooper was killed in the line of duty in 2015.
Speaking against House Bill 6 was Brett Malone, whose mother, Mary Ann Shaver Malone was killed in Bossier Parish in December of 2000. He told lawmakers killing the man who killed his mother won’t help anyone and he asked just how far they will go to carry out executions.
Vincent says there’s no reasonable doubt about his brother’s killer, he says Kevin Daigle confessed and there’s both video and DNA evidence. Vincent says it’s difficult to listen to those who are against the death penalty and opposed to expanding methods of execution like the electric chair and Nitrogen Hypoxia.
Terry Landry Junior with the Southern Poverty Law Center spoke in opposition to adding the use of nitrogen as a means of execution. He says several veterinarian associations are against the use of nitrogen because it is cruel and harmful to animals.
HB6, which received full passage in the House last week was amended in Senate Judiciary C to take effect July 1, 2024.
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Forty recent graduates from the LSU-A School of Nursing passed the NCLEX National Licensure Examination on their first try. It’s the second time in six years that LSUA has seen all its students in a cohort pass the NCLEX on their first attempt. Director of the LSUA’s School of Nursing Sarita James…
James says half of these new nurses are staying in central Louisiana, but others got jobs in Baton Rouge and Lafayette….
In 2023, the national first-time pass rate was 79-percent. James says most of their students are working parents or individuals working on a second career…
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