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3 - Regarding the death penalty: it’s been hard for the state to buy drugs for lethal injection because companies don’t want to sell it to them, for ethical reasons. If this bill passes, the state will be imposing very strict, possibly illegal, confidentially guidelines in hopes of procuring them or maybe making the drugs in house? Hard to tell. I was able to get an amendment on, thanks to some smart advocates, that prevents the governor, legislators, and their families from profiting off selling the drugs to the state. Sad. Oh, it also expands the ways we can execute someone to nitrogen gas and the electric chair.
4 - Parole, probation, and good time will be whittled down to almost nothing. This is what encourage people who are incarcerated to turn their life around. Removing it will dramatically increase prison populations, and according to many, make prisons even more dangerous.
5 - Juvenile records will ALL be public. Juveniles are in a different system because we recognize that young people should have the opportunity to grow up and out of their young mistakes. The reason given for this bill is that victims often aren’t told about hearings and release - but that's the prosecutor’s responsibility. Records can live forever on the internet.
6 -There are bills on law enforcement immunity, gun owners' immunity, fentanyl, carjacking, the public defender board, and a few others.
House Dems have done a great job pushing back and making a record. Here are a few videos highlighting the Orleans Delegation and their hard work:
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