[NY Post] Louisiana’s outgoing Democratic governor pardoned 40 convicted murderers since October including one of whom had been on death row and another who fatally stabbed a woman 39 times.
Gov. John Bel Edwards has been on a mission to help Louisiana lose the title of being the World’s Prison Capital and has signed the pardons to release 56 total convicts in five separate batches.
Edwards, whose term ends on Jan 8. 2024, campaigned to reduce the state’s prison population and is attempting to see some results in his final weeks in office.
The Pelican State governor began signing his pardons on Oct. 11 with his latest coming on Dec. 19, while future orders could be announced after the holidays, according to KTSB.
Eleven of the 40 jailed murderers were convicted in the first degree, or those who killed a human being with the specific intent to kill or inflict great bodily harm and engaged in the preparation of the crimes that led to the killing.
Ricky Washington, 65, was found guilty of fatally shooting a grocery store owner during an armed robbery in Shreveport in 1979, according to KTBS.
Owner Grady Haynes was behind the counter of YQ Grocery and was shot once in the back of the head by Washington who was using a .32-caliber handgun, according to the case brief.
Washington faced the death penalty, but the jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision, which forced the case’s judge to rule he be sentenced to life behind bars.
Another pardon involved a man who fatally stabbed a woman nearly 40 times.
Nick Charles Nicholson, who also received a pardon, was found guilty of fatally stabbing convenience store worker Kelly Ann Gramm in 1981.
Gramm was discovered with 39 stabbed wounds across her body, and a broken tip of a knife lodged in her skull, the outlet reported. Nicholson, 60, was arrested after police found him in his car with blood on his clothes and a cash register sitting next to him.
He also faced the death penalty but was sentenced to life in prison.
In Louisiana, suspects convicted of first-degree murder can face the death penalty if the district attorney seeks it, or "shall be punished by life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence."
A third murderer set to be free following Edwards’ pardons is Frederick Kirkpatrick who was arrested for 1982 killing Steve Joseph Radoste inside Radoste’s home in Pearl River.
During his trial Kirkpatrick, now 66, said the killing was in self-defense after Radoste made homosexual advances toward him and his friend accomplice Charles Faulkner.
The two inflicted head injuries, stab wounds, and a fatal gunshot to Radoste, before robbing the house and setting it on fire, according to WVUE.
Kirkpatrick was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to death with the jury citing aggravating circumstances.
A study by the Loyola University of New Orleans College of Law found Kirkpatrick was off death row by 2019
It is unknown if the 56 inmates have or when they will be released, but the Louisiana Department of Corrections lists Nicholson as out of custody, as of Dec. 23 at 3:26 a.m.
Edwards was term-limited from running for the governor again after serving for eight years and will be succeeded by Jeff Landry, who recently served as the state’s attorney general.
Landry, 52, a Republican, defeated current Louisiana Department of Transportation Secretary Shawn Wilson in October, garnering 51.6% of the vote.
Per capita, Louisiana locks up more people than any other democracy on earth, with 1,094 people per 100,000 behind bars, according to the Prison Policy Initiative. By comparison, the U.S. as a whole locks up 664 per 100,000; the U.K only 129.
[Townhall] Harvard President Claudine Gay continues to be embroiled in controversy not only for her particularly lacking response during a House Committee on Education & the Workforce congressional hearing earlier this month when it comes to if calls for genocide against Jews constitutes bullying and harassment, but also for allegations of plagiarism that just keep coming in. Even the mainstream media has started to turn on her. And yet the Harvard Corporation still voted unanimously last week to let Gay keep her job. It looks like Gay not only has Penny Pritzker, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, but also former President Barack Obama, whose administration Pritzker served in.
A Friday report from Jewish Insider mostly focuses on Pritzker, but Obama himself is in fact mentioned:
Recent scholarship by the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project of the King Institute has revealed that as a student at Crozer and Boston, King frequently appropriated the words of other writers without proper attribution. Volumes I and II of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., have demonstrated that while his bibliographies contained the authors and books that he drew on in his own compositions, his papers often lacked the footnotes and quotation marks that identified his use of these sources in his text. His habit of plagiarizing others’ work, intentionally or not, can be found in the various drafts of his dissertation. King borrowed from several secondary sources without proper citation, including a dissertation written by fellow Crozer student Jack Boozer for DeWolf three years earlier, and a review of Tillich’s Systematic Theology written by one of King’s former professors.
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Let Harvard rot with president Claudine. In typical practice the AA candidate is brought in to manage the decline.
Unlike Jimmy Carter I would have thought with Obama’s close relations with Hamas he would be the public face of peace in Gaza but he is no Jimmy Carter.
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The longer this controversy goes the better that it is for our country. There is very little happening on Ivy League campuses that serves the interests of the American people.
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Barack Obama looks on par as he enjoys round of golf in his home state of Hawaii while wearing custom glove and shoes emblazoned with his presidential number 44
[NYPOST] Lawyers for Harvard and its president Claudine Gay tried to dismiss allegations she was a plagiarist as having been created by "ChatGPT."
They sent a 15-page legal tirade to The Post which launched a bizarre conspiracy theory that the 27 instances in which her work appeared to closely resemble that of other academics may have been uncovered by using Microsoft’s artificial intelligence chatbot.
The letter, sent in October to The Post’s attorneys, threatened a lawsuit if the newspaper published allegations of plagiarism against Gay.
The letter was sent before the Harvard Corporation, the board which runs the Ivy League school launched its own secret investigation into numerous allegations of plagiarism against the embattled president — in effect clearing her in advance of the probe.
"Indeed, there are strong indications that the excerpts cited by The Post were not in fact the ’complaints’ of a human complainant — but rather were generated by artificial intelligence or some other technological or automated means," wrote Thomas Clare and David Sillers in their Oct. 27 letter to The Post.
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She called Columbia to get Hillary’s advice.
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[Breitbart] The Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider is under investigation from the Secret Service after statements he made online Thursday against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
The federal agency charged with protecting POTUS, the Vice President and their immediate families, as well as major political candidates and high level government officials, have opened the probe, according to Deadline.
As Breitbart News reported, Schneider called for the public execution of Biden, saying the commander in chief should to be “publicly hung” for treason. The actor also called for Hunter Biden to be executed.
Schneider’s post – which was deleted soon after – came after years of left-wingers calling for violence and even the assassination of then-President Donald Trump.
Officially, the White House and the Secret Service, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security, are saying nothing on any investigation of Schneider. However, sources close to events confirmed to the outlet a probe is in the preliminary stage.
“We look at all threats against our protectees and, due to intent, this falls under the definition of a threat,” a law enforcement insider informed Deadline late on Thursday.
A federal Class D felony, a “credible” threat against the president is subject to up to five years behind bars and a $250,000 fine, the Deadline sets out in its story.
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I can’t speak to whether Hunter is hung in public. Thankfully, that part is blurred out.
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"The past tense of hang in almost all situations is hung. You hung a picture on the wall, or you hung out at the mall. Only use hanged when referring to someone being sentenced to death via hanging."
Yer Honor, since my client was only soliciting an act of decorating, not a big deal, right?
[Independent] The US Supreme Court has declined to weigh in on Donald Trump’s "presidential immunity" defence until an appeals court reviews the case.
The refusal on Friday from the nation’s highest court follows a request from special counsel Jack Smith to make a swift and "definitive" ruling on whether the former president can claim "immunity" from prosecution for crimes allegedly committed while in office.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on the "immunity" defence on 9 January.
A federal grand jury indictment charges Mr Trump for his alleged attempts to subvert the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, including his failure to stop a mob of his supporters from breaking into the US Capitol to stop the certification of the results on January 6.
The federal judge overseeing the case has rejected Mr Trump’s arguments, and Mr Trump has vowed to appeal.
The Supreme Court’s response tells the parties that the justices won’t get involved in the case, for now.
The justices did not cite a reason for the decision.
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Our country hasn’t seen this level of a hack since Jack Reynolds’s sawed a car apart in anger after a football loss.
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Jack Smith was trying to take his a small part of his case to the supreme court to give his judge an opportunity to find Trump guilty. I'm glad the supreme court will not play lackey politics.
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[Townhall] Chicago residents are desperately suffering from President Joe Biden's immigration policies that have caused cities to use all of their resources on illegal aliens rather than on their own residents.
This week, a prominent Black activist gave a passionate speech during an all-Democrat city council meeting, calling on officials to handle immediately hand the immigrant crisis by "sending them all back."
George Blakemore condemned Biden's unwillingness to secure the border, urging former President Trump to "come in here and clean up this mess" as some of the poorest neighborhoods suffer from a lack of funding and city services due to the migrant crisis.
The Chicago resident called it "un-American" and "disgraceful" to see illegal aliens come into the United States and reap the same benefits, if not better, than hard-working American taxpayers.
[Breitbart] Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) said Friday on MSNBC’s "José Díaz-Balart Reports" that she was hopeful former President Donald Trump will be banned from other state ballots following the Colorado Supreme Court ruling.
Wasserman Schultz said, "I know there has been a lot of chatter over the last few days since this court ruling about whether or not section three of the 14th Amendment was intended to apply to presidents of the United States, foreign presidents. The Section 3 begins, ’No person shall,’ I mean, it doesn’t have an exception for other offices, and it applies specifically if you are an officer of the United States and you swore to uphold an oath to support the Constitution of the United States."
She continued, "There is no shortage of evidence that Donald Trump, whether it was the calls into Georgia election officials to find 11,000 and change votes, or the calls that have just come to light into Michigan to canvassing boards, to not sign to certify the elections, and then, of course, January 6, where he incited an insurrection. It is very clear that this section of the constitutional amendment is applicable to Donald Trump."
Wasserman Schultz added, "State parties and states decide who is going to be on their ballots. It is not a 50-state uniform process to qualify to be on a ballot to run for president. It is in 50 individual state process. And so it is possible, and this process has begun with Colorado’s decision prohibits a presidential candidate from appearing on the ballot because they committed insurrection and are deemed to be violative of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. That’s what happened here, and it could potentially and in my mind hopefully will happen in other states because Donald Trump is not an individual who should be trusted ever again to uphold the Constitution because he clearly violated it multiple times and while he was president, in trying to hold on to office at all costs."
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The Left is like a controlling abusive spouse. Physical and mental cruelty with the whisper under the breath, that if I can't have you, no one will.
[NYPOST] An NBC News news hound expressed astonishment at the sheer volume of migrants colonists who are crossing the US-Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas.
Guad Venegas appeared on MSNBC for a live report from the southern border on Thursday.
During the segment, he told MSNBC anchor Jose Diaz-Balart that he had never seen as many people at the border crossing as he did on that day.
"These crowds here in Eagle Pass have never been this large during my reporting," Venegas told Diaz-Balart. His comments were reported by Mediaite.
"This is the most people I’ve ever seen in Eagle Pass, and other news hounds, colleagues working other parts of the border in Arizona, [and] in Jacumba near San Diego tell me the same thing."
Venegas said that he and other journalists covering the migrant crisis "have these conversations" and "the conversation is always, ’Wow, I’ve never seen this number of migrants colonists arriving.'"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NY Post] Louisiana’s outgoing Democratic governor pardoned 40 convicted murderers since October including one of whom had been on death row and another who fatally stabbed a woman 39 times.
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