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Condemned Louisiana Prisoners Lose Bid for Clemency Hearings
Loaded on Dec. 1, 2023
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2023, page 48
The last five of a group consisting of condemned Louisiana prisoners who had sought clemency hearings were shot down by the state Board of Pardons on October 13, 2023. Among them was Antoinette Frank, a former New Orleans cop and the only woman on the state’s death row, who …
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