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Louisianans will get a historic opportunity November 6th to decide whether a non-unanimous split jury vote of 10-2 is enough to condemn a person to prison for the rest of their life. For 120 years, Louisiana has been the only state to allow its citizens to be convicted and sentenced…

A 59-year-old man who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder he did not commit was released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary. Gerald Manning was 17 when he was sentenced for the rape and murder of Vonda Harris in 1977. A recent DNA test proved Manning’s innocence, and…

Standing in the prison yard at Angola, Robert Jones learned a lesson from a fellow inmate, a boxing instructor, about fighting. It was the mid 1990s, and Jones was still reeling from the life sentence he received after a jury found him guilty of rape, kidnapping and robbery, plus a…