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Bill to resolve state’s death penalty problems dies
By theadvocate.com- Michelle Millhollon
Published: 06/05/2014

Although legislators abandoned the idea of resurrecting the electric chair, 2014 still was supposed to be the year that some resolution was reached on problems with enforcing the death penalty in Louisiana.

House Bill 328 offered a two-prong solution: State officials wouldn’t have to disclose where they got the drugs used in lethal injections, and they could buy them from compounding pharmacies outside Louisiana. The bill breezed through both chambers and then died.

Gov. Bobby Jindal didn’t veto it. The Legislature didn’t vote it down. The bill’s author, state Rep. Joseph Lopinto, just never brought it up for a final vote.

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