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It also allows for "designated victim relationship witnesses." The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola will carry out the executions and is responsible for checking all aspects of the system.

In 1956, the Legislature moved all executions to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, according to the prison's website. But in 1972, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling known as Gregg v.

Louisiana's Department of Public Safety and Corrections did not respond to a ... appeal and the majority of people on death row in the state are Black, according to the Promise of Justice ...