Under the category of “What the fuck?”….
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.
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11 people who intentionally murdered and planned to murder someone are being sprung from jail. While Louisiana is around 32% black, as you would expect the prison population is significantly skewed toward Scholar-Americans at over 64%, more than double their percentage of the population of the state:
There are 4,657,757 people in Louisiana. 32% of those are black, or 1,490,482 blacks in the state. There are 28,307 people incarcerated in Louisiana prisons as of 10/31/2023 and 64.4% of those are black, or 18,229. If I am doing the math correctly, 1,490,482 divided by 18,229 is 81.76. One out of every 82 blacks in Louisiana is in prison. That is just currently incarcerated folks, the percentage of blacks in Louisiana who have spent time in jail or prison must be astronomical.
Clearly Jon Bel Edwards is aiming at another elected office in Louisiana now that he is term-limited out of the governorship and for a Democrat to win in Louisiana he needs the overwhelming backing of blacks. I guess the way to the heart of black voters is releasing violent black criminals back into black neighborhoods?
What could possibly go wrong?
My first thought was “let’s put a wall around Louisiana so the chaos doesn’t leak across their state line to the rest of the country.” My second thought was, “the rest of the country is no better, at least to any meaningful degree.” National divorce: it can’t come soon enough.