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Letters: Governor, pardon board should hear clemency cases from death row inmates

Por: The Advocate Opinion September 28, 2023

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As a personal friend and longtime supporter of East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore, it gives me no pleasure to object to his recent filing of a lawsuit and holding multiple press conferences in an attempt to thwart Gov. John Bel Edwards and the pardon board from exercising their constitutional and statutory authority to consider applications for clemency (commutation to life without parole) for death row inmates. The invalid... + full article



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