Who is on death row in Louisiana? Here are the 57 names and their history.

Almost all Louisiana death row inmates asked Governor John Bel Edwards to spare their lives on Tuesday morning.

These are the 57 people on death row in Louisiana and some of their history.

Fifty-one of them filed clemency requests.

• Name: Anthony Bell
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: East Baton Rouge
• Date of birth:  10/13/1980
• Date of crime: 5/21/2006
• Death penalty imposed: 9/11/2008
• Summary: Anthony Bell was convicted of five counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his estranged wife and four of her relatives in Baton Rouge in May 2006. After shooting his in-laws Leonard and Gloria Howard, 78 and 72, Doloris McGrew, 68, and Darlene Mills Selvage, 47, at Ministry of Jesus Christ Church, he abducted his estranged wife, Erica Bell, from the church and shot her in a nearby parking lot. Though Bell was allowed to represent himself in the case, after the trial his attorneys presented evidence he suffered from brain damage and undiagnosed bipolar disorder. The Louisiana Supreme Court rejected those arguments.

• Name: Daniel Blank
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Terrebonne
• Date of birth: 6/28/1962
• Date of crime: 4/10/1997
• Summary: Daniel Joseph Blank, who would become known as the River parishes serial killer, was convicted of five slayings of elderly residents, including the April 1997 killing of 72-year-old Lillian Philippe, who was beaten and stabbed to death at her Gonzalez home. The case went unsolved until tips came in to a task force investigating a series of home invasions in Ascension, St. James and St. John the Baptist  parishes. When police questioned Blank, he confessed to killing Philippe and others during a 12-hour interrogation. On appeal, his lawyers would argue the confession was coerced but his conviction was upheld. In 2016, the Louisiana Supreme Court stayed his execution one month before it was set to occur. In 2021, a federal judge ordered evidence in the case be retested after defense attorneys argued no forensic evidence linked Blank to the crimes.

• Name: Scott Bourque
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Males
• Parish where crime occurred: St. Mary
• Date of birth: 7/23/1956
• Date of crime: 4/15/1990
• Summary: Scott Jude Bourque was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of his estranged girlfriend Charlotte Perry, 29, at her home in St. Martinville in April 1990. He also shot and severely injured her mother Teresa Stoute, 49. He fled the scene but was arrested in Jefferson Parish shortly after the Easter night slayings. Defense lawyers argued that prosecutors were improperly allowed to introduce evidence of other crimes committed by Bourque during the penalty phase of the trial. His conviction was upheld. In 1997, the district court found him incompetent to waive his appeals, noting he was diagnosed with "delusional disorder of the persecutory type."

• Name: David Bowie
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: East Baton Rouge
• Date of birth: 12/21/1971
• Date of crime: 1/16/1996
• Summary: David Henry Bowie was convicted in the murder of his friend John Smith in January 1996 at a Scotlandville residence after a night of drinking, drugs and gambling with a group of people. Upset at losing at dice, Bowie demanded Smith give him his money back, then strangled him with a shoelace and the cord of an electric iron when he would not open his safe. Although four individuals were present during the crime, only Bowie was charged. The district attorney sought a death sentence when Bowie opted to go to trial rather than take a deal. In the penalty phase, the defense presented testimony that Bowie and his siblings were raised by a drug addicted mother who was in and out of jail. On appeal, the defense argued that the key witnesses in the case had long rap sheets and may have been induced to testify against Bowie to reduce their own criminal liability. Those arguments were rejected.

• Name: Quincy Broaden
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: East Baton Rouge
• Date of birth: 12/7/1973
• Date of crime: 1/13/1996
• Summary: Quincy Broaden was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Edward Black, 41, and Allan Rutledge, 41, in Scotlandville in January 1996. Broaden, along with a 15-year-old accomplice, shot Black when he showed up to the house where they dealt drugs and didn't have money they said he owed. Then the pair, worried that Rudledge had witnessed the first killing, decided to kill him too. In both slayings, Broaden used a sawed-off shotgun on the victims after his accomplice shot them with a revolver. Defense attorneys argued that gruesome crime scene photos and evidence of other crimes should not have been admitted at trial, but the conviction was upheld. In subsequent appeals, lawyers argued there was evidence that Broaden, who had failed ninth grade at age 18 and started having brushes with the law, had an intellectual disability.

• Name: Henri Broadway
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: East Baton Rouge
• Date of birth: 9/7/1970
• Date of crime: 1/7/1993
• Summary: Henri Broadway was convicted in the killing of Baton Rouge police officer Betty Smothers in January 1993 when she was was working a security detail and drove grocery store worker Kimen Lee to a bank to make a night deposit. Broadway and his accomplices shot at the marked police car Smothers was waiting in as Lee made the deposit. Smothers died at the scene. Lee was hit but was able to drive away. Broadway’s attorneys argued against the evidence used at trial, including some details Lee recalled after being put under hypnosis. Broadway’s accomplice Kevan Brumfield also received the death penalty for his role in the crime, but his sentence was changed to life in prison in 2015 after a federal appeals court ruled he had an intellectual disability.

• Name: David Brown
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: West Feliciana
• Date of birth: 1/13/1973
• Date of crime: 12/28/1999 
• Summary: David Brown is a member of the Angola 5, a group of inmates whose failed escape attempt on in December 1999 from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola resulted in the beating death of Capt. David Knapps, a correctional officer. Brown and his accomplices took several hostages, but only Knapps died as they tried to take over the prison. Though other inmates participated in the attempted takeover, only Brown -- the only Black participant -- and one other received the death penalty. He was tried by an all-white jury. Brown’s case would make it to the U.S. Supreme Court after his lawyers argued that prosecutors withheld evidence that would have helped his case. The defense said a conversation between two of the other inmates involved revealed Brown didn’t know about the plan to kill Knapps. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case in April.

• Name: Gregory Brown
• Race/Ethnicity:  Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: East Baton Rouge
• Date of birth:  5/6/1973
• Date of crime: 10/4/1998
• Summary: Gregory Brown was convicted in the deaths of William Gay, 62, and his wife Ann, 60, in Clinton after a violent crime spree in October 1998. Their bodies were found in a burning vehicle, and they had been shot to death at close range. Brown and his accomplices had driven from Baton Rouge to Clinton to rob a drug dealer. But after his friends abandoned him, Brown grew desperate to find a way to return to Baton Rouge and stumbled upon the couple’s house. Brown, who was shot in the head two years before the offense, was allowed to represent himself at trial. On appeal, his lawyers argued the only physical evidence tying Brown to the crime was the telephone cord used to bind the wrists of Ann Gay, which was similar to one found at his house.

• Name: LaDerick Campbell
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Caddo
• Date of birth: 2/21/1983
• Date of crime: 2/12/2002
• Death penalty imposed: 2/25/2005
• Summary: LaDerick Campbell was convicted in the February 2002 killing of liquor store clerk Kathy Parker during an armed robbery in Rodessa in Caddo Parish. Campbell was 18 at the time of the crime. During jury selection, Campbell successfully persuaded the judge to allow him to act as his own attorney. Campbell did not call witnesses in his defense, and he was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Campbell’s appeal raised a number of points, and his lawyers argued that he was profoundly mentally ill.

• Name: Jeffrey Clark
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred:  West Feliciana
• Date of birth:  6/4/1960
• Date of crime: 12/28/1999
• Summary: Jeffrey Clark was convicted of the first-degree murder in the October 1984 murder of Andrew Cheswick, the owner of Studebaker’s Lounge in Baton Rouge, allegedly during a robbery. His death sentence in that case was eventually overturned; but he was later sentenced to death for being a member of the Angola 5, a group that killed a guard during an escape attempt. Although other inmates admittedly participated in the offense, only Clark and one other would be sentenced to die.

• Name: Sedwric Clark
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Richland
• Date of birth: 11/28/1970
• Date of crime: 2/12/2000
• Summary: Sedwric Clark was convicted in November 2001 of raping and murdering his 8-year old daughter, Mariah Barnes, and killing her great-grandmother in West Carroll Parish in February 2000. He pled not guilty by reason of insanity but was sentenced to death on both counts. On appeal, Clark argued that moving his trial from West Carroll Parish to nearby Richland, where Barnes was killed, did not allow him a fair and impartial jury and there were due process problems, among other issues. His claims were denied. In post-conviction pleadings, his lawyers said Clark suffers from paranoid schizophrenia.

• Name: Nathaniel Code
• Race/Ethnicity:  Black
• Gender:  Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Caddo
• Date of birth:  3/12/1956
• Date of crime: 7/19/1985
• Summary: Nathaniel Code was suspected of involvement in the deaths of at least eight people in Shreveport between 1984 and 1987. He was convicted and sentenced to death for four of the murders, including that of a child. He has maintained his innocence. Some victims' family members have urged for him to be executed. In post-conviction pleadings, his attorney argued that Code is mentally ill and experienced chronic abuse throughout his childhood.

• Name: Michael Cooks
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Caddo
• Date of birth: 6/27/1961
• Date of crime: 1/20/1995
• Summary: Michael Cooks was convicted of a January 1995 murder committed during an armed robbery with several other men at a home in Shreveport. Testimony from codefendants and others in the house conflicted over the details but agreed that Cooks had ordered the killing of Joe Frazier. Letters Cooks wrote after being arrested described the killing. Frazier was shot 14 times, with some of the bullets hitting him while he lay face down on the floor. Cooks was also described as a leader of a Shreveport street gang known as the Wilkenson Terrace Rollin’ 60s. After the trial, attorneys presented evidence that he is intellectually disabled, with an IQ score of 54 at age 9.

• Name: James Copeland
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Tangipahoa
• Date of birth: 11/20/1959
• Date of crime: 7/7/1979
• Summary: James Copeland was convicted along with George Brooks for the July 1979 rape and murder of 11-year old Joseph Cook Owen. Copeland, who was 19 at the time, told police that Owen had come over to the house where he lived with Brooks and they both raped the child. Early the next morning, the pair took the boy, bound and gagged, to a field in Livingston Parish where Copeland shot him with a shotgun. Copeland at first blamed Brooks, 37, for the shooting, but later confessed to it himself. Copeland, now 63, is the longest-serving inmate on death row.

• Name: Frank Ford Cosey
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Males
• Parish where crime occurred: East Baton Rouge
• Date of birth: 12/14/1959
• Date of crime: 7/6/1990
• Summary: Frank Cosey was convicted of the July 1990 rape and murder of 12-year old Delky Nelson in East Baton Rouge. Her mother returned from work to find the girl on the floor of the master bedroom with her throat slashed. Witness statements and forensic evidence put Cosey at the scene. Cosey’s appeal focused on due process concerns that were rejected by the Supreme Court.

• Name: Kevin Daigle
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Lafayette
• Date of birth: 4/1/1962
• Date of crime: 8/24/2015
• Summary: Kevin Daigle was convicted of the 2015 murder of Louisiana State Trooper Steven Vincent, who had pulled over to the side of the road to assist him when his vehicle got stuck in a ditch. Daigle shot Vincent in the head with a sawed-off shotgun.  According to trial testimony, Daigle had blood alcohol content of .31 and there was meth in his system at the time. Daigle was also charged with the murder of his roommate Blake Brewer, which was discovered after he was jailed. 

• Name: Percy Davis
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Caddo
• Date of birth: 6/28/1965
• Date of crime: 6/30/1990
• Summary: Percy Davis was convicted of the June 1990 murders in Shreveport of two convenience store clerks on consecutive nights. Both murders were linked to a gun that Davis owned, and witnesses identified his car. He told police he had been in possession of both the gun and the car and had not loaned either out during the period of the killings. During his appeal, Davis argued that the trial court erred in allowing certain evidence to be presented. The Supreme Court rejected those claims. Post-trial Percy Davis was diagnosed with schizophrenia and psychosis, and in 2005 the district court found him incompetent to execute.

• Name: Curtis Deal
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Caddo
• Date of birth: 5/3/1963
• Date of crime: 11/17/1996
• Summary: Curtis Deal was convicted of the 1996 murder of his two-month old son in Shreveport. Deal called 911, and the child was found with a wad of paper towel lodged in his throat and with a large skull fracture. Deal said in a statement to police that after a night of drinking and smoking marijuana, he had been trying to soothe the child who was crying. Deal said he had wiped the inside of his mouth with a paper towel. He admitted to flinging the boy into his crib, banging his head, because he was angry that the baby kept crying.

• Name: Clifford Deruise
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Orleans
• Date of birth: 10/19/1973
• Date of crime: 11/6/1995
• Death penalty imposed: 11/7/1996
• Summary: Clifford Deruise was convicted in the November 1995 killings of 20-year-old Gary Booker and 11-month-old Etienne NaChampassak in New Orleans. Deruise shot Booker eight times after Deruise asked him and his companions for a dollar and the men said they had no money. Two days later, Deruise shot and killed Etienne, the infant, in a botched carjacking. In a capital sentence investigation, Deruise said he was beaten by his stepfather. He was also hospitalized with a head injury in elementary school and had been exposed to alcohol since age 6. The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld his sentence for the infant's killing and his conviction in Booker's murder, but returned the Booker case to a trial court for a new penalty hearing.

• Name: Felton Dorsey
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Caddo
• Date of birth: 10/25/1973
• Date of crime: 4/1/2006
• Death penalty imposed: 9/8/1999 
• Summary: Felton Dorsey was convicted in the April 2006 killing of 52-year-old firefighter Joe Prock, who was beaten to death during a home invasion of his 79-year-old mother's house in Greenwood. Prock showed up as Dorsey and Randy Wilson attempted to rob his mother at gunpoint. Prock was restrained, beaten and lit on fire. His mother managed to escape and suffered burns. Wilson would get a plea deal in exchange for testifying against Dorsey. ACLU attorneys argued in 2011 that flying the Confederate flag outside the Shreveport court house cast a threatening racist pall over judicial proceedings in a case that involved a Black defendant and White victim.  The Louisiana Supreme court was not swayed. 

• Name: Darrell Draughn
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Caddo
• Date of birth: 2/21/1971
• Date of crime: 4/9/2000
• Death penalty imposed: 5/20/2004
• Summary: Darrell Draughn was convicted in the April 2000 killing of his neighbor 64-year-old Lauretta White, whose body was discovered with 61 stab wounds in her Shreveport home. A DNA test linked Draughn to the murder scene, according to court records. Draughn's attorneys argued on appeal that there was insufficient evidence at trial, he had ineffective assistance of counsel and that the prosecutor improperly struck prospective jurors on the basis of their race, among other allegations. The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the sentence. 

• Name: Jimmie Duncan
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred:  Ouachita
• Date of birth: 11/28/1968
• Date of crime: 12/18/1993
• Death penalty imposed: 12/2/1998
• Summary: Jimmie C. Duncan was convicted in the December 1993 drowning death of 23-month-old Haley Oliveaux in West Monroe -- his girlfriend's daughter from a previous relationship. Duncan was supposed to be watching the child, who he said drowned in a bathtub while he was washing dishes. However, an investigation showed Haley died well before Duncan left the apartment to seek help. A pediatrician also testified during trial the child had been severely sexually abused before she died. On appeal, Duncan's lawyers argued the state struck Black jurors solely on the basis of race and female jurors solely on the basis of gender, but the Louisiana Supreme Court rejected those arguments.

• Name: James Dunn
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Calcasieu
• Date of birth: 7/5/1966
• Date of crime: 6/4/1998
• Death penalty imposed: 6/18/1999
• Summary: James Dunn was convicted in the June 1998 killings of two bank employees -- 22-year-old Lisa Dupuis and 31-year-old Jacqueline Blanchard in Napoleonville during an armed robbery with accomplices. On appeal, Dunn's attorneys argued he was intellectually disabled and therefore should not be executed. The Louisiana Supreme Court did not find Dunn met the qualifications for intellectual disability and upheld his sentence.

• Name: Winthrop Eaton
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Rapides
• Date of birth: 2/12/1965
• Date of crime: 3/12/1985
• Death penalty imposed: 2/23/1987
• Summary: Winthrop Eaton was convicted in the March 1985 killing of Rev. Lea Joyner in the parking lot of the Southside United Methodist Church of Monroe. Eaton had planned to go to Florida and decided to kill Joyner for her car to make the trip. Eaton attacked Joyner as she walked to her car, striking her twice in the head with a heavy pipe and then stabbing her several times when he saw she was not yet dead. The jury recommended the death penalty after considering Eaton had raped Joyner or attempted to rape her. On appeal, Eaton's attorneys suggested showing photographs of the victim prejudiced the jury against him, among other arguments. The Louisiana Supreme Court did not find those claims credible. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Eaton's appeal in 1989. However, in 1993 the trial court found that Eaton was insane and ruled that he was incompetent to be executed

• Name: Cedric Edwards
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Caddo
• Date of birth: 3/13/1966
• Date of crime: 10/27/1995
• Death penalty imposed: 2/18/1997
• Summary: Cedric Edwards was convicted in the October 1995 killing of Victoria Catanese Kennedy in Shreveport during a home invasion related to the Bottoms Boyz gang. Edwards first shot Victoria's husband, who survived, and then killed her as he searched for money. The couple's 14-year-old daughter hid under a piece of furniture and witnessed the violence. Edwards' defense noted he had an early history of drug and alcohol abuse, a learning disorder, a personality disturbance and accepted responsibility for his predicament. The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld his sentence.

• Name: Antoinette Frank
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Female
• Parish where crime occurred: Orleans
• Date of birth: 4/30/1971
• Date of crime: 3/4/1995
• Death penalty imposed: 10/20/1995
• Summary: Antoinette Frank, a New Orleans police officer at the time of the crime, was convicted in the 1995 killing of Ronald Williams II, a fellow officer, during an armed robbery of a restaurant, along with two members of the business owner's family -- 17-year-old Cuong Vu and 24-year-old Ha Vu. Frank had been moonlighting as a security guard at the Kim Anh restaurant and so was familiar with how much cash was around when she robbed the business with 18-year-old Rogers Lacaze. During the appeal process, it emerged that Frank may have been suffering from PTSD due to childhood sexual abuse and erratic and violent behavior from her father. The Louisiana Supreme Court ultimately upheld her sentence.

• Name: Michael Garcia
• Race/Ethnicity: Hispanic/White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: West Baton Rouge
• Date of birth: 8/7/1978
• Date of crime: 2/8/2006
• Death penalty imposed: 7/8/2008
• Summary: Michael Garcia was convicted in the 2006 killing of Matthew Millican in a wooded area near the south end of La. 415 in Port Allen. Garcia and two other men brutalized Millican and his girlfriend, Megan Teresi, at knifepoint, beating and hog-tying him before making him watch them rape her. One of Garcia's co-defendants testified Garcia stabbed Millican to death. In his appeal, Garcia claimed the public defenders appointed to serve as his defense attorneys had a “conflict of interest” in representing him and his co-defendants because the attorneys all worked for Louisiana’s 18th Judicial District. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld his sentence.

• Name: Bobby Hampton
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Caddo
• Date of birth: 3/3/1970
• Date of crime: 8/12/1995
  
• Death penalty imposed: 9/5/1997
• Summary: Bobby Hampton was convicted in the August 1995 killing of Philip Russell Coleman, a cashier, during a liquor store robbery in Shreveport that took place as employees prepared to close the shop. Hampton's attorneys argued the case was flawed due to ineffective assistance of counsel and prosecutorial misconduct, among other issues The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld Hampton's conviction and sentence on direct appeal. In post-conviction, Hampton's attorneys presented evidence that the district attorney withheld sworn grand jury testimony from an eyewitness who identified Elbert Williams as the shooter. Williams received a life sentence for his role in the crime.

• Name: Clarence Harris Jr.
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Orleans
• Date of birth: 3/6/1962
• Date of crime: 8/17/1993
• Summary: Clarence Harris Jr. was convicted of first-degree murder for the August 1993 killing of Katie Carlin. He tried to abduct the woman from New Orleans’ Central City neighborhood before dawn and gunned her down as she ran away. Harris then dragged Carlin’s 11-year-old daughter — who was with her — into his car and drove her back to his apartment, where he raped her. In appeal, Supreme Court justices rejected arguments from Harris’ attorneys that state prosecutors failed to preserve DNA evidence and made prejudicial remarks in closing arguments of the trial's death penalty phase. The defense presented evidence at trial that Harris was involved in a tractor trailer accident in 1993 after which he started displaying unusual behaviors, his brain dysfunction causing impulse control problems.

• Name: Jessie Hoffman
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: St. Tammany
• Date of birth: 9/1/1978
• Date of crime: 11/26/1996
• Summary: Jessie D. Hoffman was convicted of first-degree murder for killing Mary “Molly” Elliot, a 28-year-old advertising executive, in November 1996. Hoffman was an 18-year-old valet at the Sheraton parking garage in downtown New Orleans where Elliot routinely parked her car. Hoffman kidnapped the woman in her own car as she was leaving work, ordered her to drive to a nearby ATM at gunpoint and withdraw $200, then forced her to drive to a remote area of St. Tammany, where he raped her. Afterward, he marched Elliot down a dirt path and shot her execution style on a makeshift dock near the Middle Pearl River. The Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed Hoffman’s conviction. Attorneys said Hoffman endured chronic childhood abuse and neglect resulting in symptoms of post-traumatic stress and brain damage.

• Name: Dacarius Holliday
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: East Baton Rouge
• Date of birth: 6/21/1977
• Date of crime: 5/14/2007
• Summary: Dacarius Holliday was convicted of capital murder for beating his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son, Darian Coon, to death while babysitting the toddler at a Baton Rouge home May 2007. The Missouri man told police he forced the boy to sit on a toilet for two hours after he wet himself and admitted to disciplining Coon with his fists. An autopsy showed Coon’s injuries included 75 body contusions and liver lacerations that caused internal bleeding. The defense presented evidence that Holliday had a childhood filled with abuse and trauma, to the extent that he attempted suicide three times before age 18, but the jury sentenced him to death. The Louisiana Supreme Court reaffirmed Holliday’s sentence after his attorneys challenged the sufficiency of evidence prosecutors used to convict him and the pretrial publicity his case received in East Baton Rouge Parish, where he was tried.

• Name: Daniel Irish
• Race/Ethnicity:  White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Caddo
• Date of birth: 2/12/1978
• Date of crime: 12/30/1996
• Summary: Daniel Irish was convicted of luring his landlord, Russ Rowland, to his Caddo Parish mobile home and murdering him in December 1996. Irish’s friend and accomplice Audy Keith fired first, wounding Rowland with a shotgun blast as he walked up the steps of Irish’s trailer to collect rent money. Irish used a 30-30 rifle to shoot Rowland through his right eye. Keith accepted a pre-trial plea of second-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. He later testified against Irish. Defense attorneys argued Irish’s trial judge erred by allowing expert testimony from an investigator and letting prosecutors ask a defense psychologist about other death penalty hearings he testified in as a way to attack his credibility. State and federal courts both rejected those arguments.

• Name: Kyle Joekel
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: St. John the Baptist
• Date of birth: 1/1/1985
• Date of crime: 8/22/2012
• Summary: Kyle David Joekel was convicted of killing St. John the Baptist Parish sheriff’s deputies Brandon Nielsen and Jeremy Triche during a bloody and chaotic ambush before dawn in August 2012. At least five deputies exchanged multiple rounds of gunfire with an anti-government extremist group – labeled by the FBI as “domestic terrorists” – during the shootout at the Scenic Riverview trailer park in LaPlace. Joekel managed to escape police custody during the melee and picked up an AK-47, which he used to shoot Triche. He then stood over Nielsen, who was already wounded from bullets fired by another member of the so-called “sovereign citizens” group, and shot him dead at point blank range.

• Name: Glynn Juniors
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: St. James
• Date of birth:  10/27/1968
• Date of crime: 11/17/1997
• Summary: A jury found Glynn Juniors guilty of killing Albert “Butch” Robinson during a November 1997 robbery at a boating business in Convent. Robinson was shot in the head and died one day after the shooting. A second victim recovered from a gunshot wound to the back. Juniors’ co-defendant, Ronald Williams, pled guilty and testified against Juniors to avoid the death penalty. The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld his conviction and sentence, rejecting nearly three dozen trial errors his attorneys argued on appeal. Post-trial, the defense presented evidence that Juniors has major brain dysfunction and suffered from significant early childhood trauma.

• Name: Tracy Lee
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Natchitoches
• Date of birth: 10/21/1960
• Date of crime: 6/15/1985
• Summary: Tracy Lee, then a soldier stationed at Fort Polk, was convicted of killing 15-year-old Rhon Blackston during a June 1985 burglary in Natchitoches. A masked Lee broke into the victim’s home, shot him in the face and forced his mother and 18-year-old sister into a bedroom. When Blackston’s mother begged Lee to let her tend to the wounded teenager, Lee went back to the kitchen and shot Blackston in the back of the head. He then went back to the bedroom and raped the mother and daughter twice. Before leaving, he stole cash from the family and tied both women up. Lee was convicted and sentenced to death by an all-white jury. In the penalty phase, the defense argued that he was experiencing an "mental or emotional disturbance" at the time of the crime. On appeal, Lee’s attorneys argued that his confession and evidence seized from his military barracks should’ve been suppressed at trial, but his sentence was affirmed.

• Name: Donald Leger
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: St. Mary
• Date of birth: 6/2/1969
• Date of crime: 12/12/2001
• Summary: Donald Lee Leger Jr. was convicted of killing Troy Salone and shooting the victim's wife during a December 2001 domestic violence rampage that spilled onto the St. Mary Parish couple’s doorstep. Leger kidnapped Kimberly Zimmerman when she broke up with him to reunite with her estranged husband. The mother of four managed to escape Leger’s minivan and took refuge in a Franklin residence. When Leger went to the Salone’s nearby trailer home demanding to know her whereabouts, he shot Evelyn Salone in the abdomen at point blank range then chased Troy Salone into the home and shot him in the head. Leger’s attorneys contended police coerced him into making a handful of incriminating statements during interrogation; but the Louisiana Supreme Court rejected those arguments.

• Name: Julius Lucky
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Jefferson
• Date of birth: 5/25/1975
• Date of crime: 8/6/1994
• Summary: Julius Lucky was sentenced to death row after a jury found him guilty of killing his 18-year-old co-worker Leatitia Fagot and another employee, Bonnie Giambalvo, during an August 1994 robbery at a Metairie bar and restaurant. Lucky committed the robbery with his cousin Vashon Kelly, who worked with him at the eatery. After learning Giambalvo survived, Lucky confessed that he shot both victims in the head as they were closing for the evening. Kelly was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Lucky’s attorneys challenged his conviction, arguing admissibility of incriminating defendant statements and errors made during jury selection were prejudicial. His sentence was upheld.

• Name: Jeremiah Manning
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Bossier
• Date of birth: 12/9/1980
• Date of crime: 12/19/2000
• Summary: Jeremiah Manning was convicted of kidnapping Mary Malone from her Plain Dealing home and killing her in December 2000. Malone, a 62-year-old pharmacy clerk, once hired Manning and his father to do yardwork. Manning broke into her residence and forced the widow to drive to an isolated road near Rocky Mount, where he beat her and slit her throat. Malone’s body was found in woods near her home. The Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed Manning’s death sentence, though it noted he was "a slow learner' and possibly had some kind of intellectual disability.

• Name: Robert Craig Miller
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: East Baton Rouge
• Date of birth: 8/23/1962
• Date of crime: 1/25/1997
• Summary: Robert Miller was convicted of first-degree murder, rape and armed robbery in the January 1997 death of his 67-year-old landlord at her East Baton Rouge Parish home. Miller said he spent the night of the murder drinking with his neighbor and decided to pay his overdue rent. He said he began to feel sick and lost consciousness, saying someone put something in his drink, after his landlord came to the door and let him into her house. He said when he regained consciousness 15 minutes later, the victim was bloody and dead with a sofa across her face. Miller’s defense attorneys argued that three jurors should have been struck because they were biased in favor of the death penalty. The Louisiana Supreme Court disagreed. In subsequent appeals, attorneys presented evidence that Miller is intellectually disabled with an IQ of 61.

• Name: Jesse Montejo
• Race/Ethnicity: Hispanic/White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: St. Tammany
• Date of birth: 5/11/1979
• Date of crime:  9/5/2002
• Summary: Jesse Montejo was convicted in the September 2002 fatal shooting of 61-year-old Louis Ferrari in his Slidell-area home. During a four-hour police interrogation, Montejo admitted he shot Ferrari, the owner of a dry-cleaning chain. Montejo then wrote the widow of the victim a letter in the back of a police unit, saying he only intended to commit burglary but was unable to frighten the victim with his gun and fired the two fatal shots to escape. Montejo’s defense attorney argued on appeal that Montejo should have had his attorney present when questioned by police, that police forced a false confession and that he was given false promises about his case that prompted him to write the apology letter to Ferrari’s widow.

• Name: Jarrell Neal
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Jefferson
• Date of birth: 2/19/1977
• Date of crime: 3/31/1998
• Summary: Jarrell Neal was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder in the March 1998 shooting deaths of Fergus Robinson and Greg Vickers. Neal was one of three intruders who entered a Metairie home with the intention of collecting an overdue drug debt from a former resident of the house. In addition to firing the shots that killed Robinson and Vickers, the intruders also shot and injured a third person in the home and a pregnant next-door neighbor; they also shot at responding officers. One of the intruders testified against Neal during the trial, which Neal’s defense attorney argued was the state’s primary evidence and no witnesses other than the co-perpetrator could identify Neal as the shooter. A federal court recently reversed Neal's conviction and sentence, finding that because of incompetent defense counsel, the jury never heard evidence pointing to his co-defendant and the state's primary witness as the shooter. His case is now pending before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal.

• Name: Lee Roy Odenbaugh
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Morehouse
• Date of birth:  2/4/1964
• Date of crime: 12/2/2006
• Summary: Lee Roy Odenbaugh was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the December 2006 shooting of his wife, Sondra Porter Odenbaugh, and his wife's mother, Jessie Mae Porter, as well as the attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of his step-daughter, Jessica Cooper. The shootings took place at Lee Roy Odenbaugh's trailer in Morehouse Parish after an argument between him and the three women. When he was jailed after arrest, corrections officers sent him for mental health treatment. Lee Roy Odenbaugh’s defense attorney argued that the trial court failed to assess his competency to stand trial and that he was not competent due to severe mental illness. For more than a decade at The Louisiana State Penitentiary, he has been treated for schizophrenia by doctors.

• Name: Manuel Ortiz
• Race/Ethnicity: Hispanic/White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Jefferson
• Date of birth: 10/13/1957
• Date of crime: 10/23/1992
• Death penalty imposed: 10/11/1994
• Summary: Manuel Ortiz was convicted in the deaths of his wife, Tracie Williams Ortiz, 31, and his wife's friend Cheryl Mallory, 33, in October 1992 at the couple's condo in Kenner. Manuel Ortiz, an El Salvador national, was in that country at the time of the murders. He was found guilty of paying someone to fatally stab his wife for the insurance payout. Mallory was shot to death. His death sentence was lifted after it was revealed that a prosecutor in the case had also signed up to help Williams' family get the insurance money. But the Louisiana Supreme Court reinstated it in 2013.

• Name: Marcus Reed
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Caddo
• Date of birth: 4/4/1977
• Date of crime: 8/17/2010
• Summary: Marcus Reed was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder in the August 2010 deaths of brothers Jeremiah Adams, Jarquis Adams and Gene Adams in Caddo Parish. Reed ambushed the three brothers — ages 20, 18 and 13 — with an assault rifle in their vehicle in the driveway of the home he shared with his girlfriend because Reed believed the brothers had burglarized her home earlier that day. Witnesses testified that Jarquis Adams had indeed broken into the home and had stated that he wanted to return to steal a gun. Reed’s defense attorney argued that there was insufficient evidence to prove the homicides were not justified.

• Name: Jason Reeves
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Calcasieu
• Date of birth: 1/8/1975
• Date of crime: 11/12/2001
• Summary: Jason Reeves was convicted in the November 2001 rape and stabbing death of 4-year-old Mary Jean Thigpen in Moss Bluff near Lake Charles. Reeves picked up the child from a trailer park where she lived and drove her to a cemetery. Her body was found with 16 stab wounds and evidence of sexual assault. Reeves had two prior convictions for indecent behavior with a juvenile — one 15 and the other 7 — in 1996 and 1997. Deputies testified that Reeves asked for the death penalty and that Reeves said if he ever got out of jail, he would find another child and would kill again. Reeves’ defense attorney argued on appeal that Reeves suffered from depression and personality disorders that he developed after witnessing his sister’s death and being sexually assaulted as a young boy.

• Name: Allen Robertson
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred:  East Baton Rouge
• Date of birth:  7/18/1967
• Date of crime:  1/1/1991
• Summary: Allen Robertson Jr. was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the January 1991 stabbing deaths of Morris and Kazuko Presetenback in their Baton Rouge home. Robertson broke into the older couple’s house to steal goods because of his cocaine addiction, using a knife in the home’s kitchen to stab the older couple to death when they awoke during the nighttime encounter. Robertson took a TV, watch, car keys and cash from the home and left in the Prestenbacks’ Oldsmobile. Robertson’s defense attorney argued that Robertson had an intellectual disability; the district court rejected the claim after taking into consideration his school records, I.Q. scores and ability to adapt to life.

• Name: Darrell Robinson
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Rapides
• Date of birth: 7/4/1968
• Date of crime: 5/28/1996
• Summary: Darrell J. Robinson was convicted in the May 1996 murders of Billy Lambert, Carol Hooper, Maureen Kelly and Nicholas Kelly at Lambert’s home in the Rapides Parish community of Poland. Robinson had gone to live with Lambert about eight days before the murders after the two met at the Veterans Administration Medical Center where they were both being treated for alcoholism. Robinson reportedly began drinking again and purchased a bottle of vodka the morning of the murders. The bodies of Lambert, his sister, his niece and his infant great-nephew were found by another family member. Each had been shot in the head and left in a pool of their own blood. Robinson’s defense attorney argued that evidence presented at trial was insufficient to prove his identity as the murderer.

• Name: Larry Roy
• Race/Ethnicity: Black 
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Rapides
• Date of birth: 11/20/1960
• Date of crime: 5/3/1993
• Summary: Larry Roy was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the May 1993 stabbing deaths of Freddie Richard Jr. and Rosetta Silas and the injuring of Sally Richard and her sons, Frederick and David Richard, who survived the attack in their Cheneyville home. Roy dated Sally Richard after she divorced Freddie Richard Jr., but she ultimately ended the relationship. Roy consumed beer, gin and crack cocaine before breaking into the Richard home and attacking the five residents with a knife. After stabbing Freddie Richard to death, Roy tied up Sally Richard and her two sons and slit their throats. The three managed to escape the house while Roy stabbed Silas, Sally Richard’s aunt, to death in another room. Roy later said he did not remember committing the violent acts because of his intoxicated state.

• Name: Christopher Sepulvado
• Race/Ethnicity: Hispanic/White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: DeSoto
• Date of birth: 11/11/1943
• Date of crime: 3/8/1992
• Summary: Christopher Sepulvado was convicted of first-degree murder in the March 1992 death of his 6-year-old stepson, Wesley Allen Mercer, in the child’s DeSoto Parish home. Sepulvado married the child’s mother, Yvonne, three days before the murder. In the days before the killing, the couple had punished the child, who had returned home from school with soiled underwear. On the day of the killing, the child hesitated when Sepulvado told him to bathe for church and Sepulvado hit him over the head with the handle of a screwdriver multiple times until he was unconscious. The child was then put in a bathtub of scalding hot water. His cause of death was burns that covered 60% of his body. Sepulvado admitted to hitting the child with a screwdriver but said the child fell into the bathtub accidentally. Experts testified marks on the child’s body indicated he was dipped or immersed into the water. At 79, Sepulvado is the oldest inmate on death row.

• Name: Willie Tart
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Ouachita
• Date of birth: 7/14/1969
• Date of crime: 9/6/1989
• Summary: Willie Tart was convicted of murdering William and Lillian Quenan, an elderly couple, in their home in Bastrop in September 1989. Both victims had been stabbed multiple times in an assault that the coroner estimated lasted between 15 and 30 minutes. The couple’s van was taken, and items of jewelry were scattered. After Tart was arrested, he admitted burglarizing the Quenan’s home and several others.

• Name: Antoine Tate
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: East Baton Rouge
• Date of birth: 3/2/1970
• Date of crime: 2/5/1995
• Death penalty imposed: 2/4/2000
• Summary: Antoine Tate was sentenced to death for the February 1995 murders of Chonner Jackson, Joseph Billi, and Sylvester Rowe after a rolling shoutout that was connected to an armed robbery in Baton Rouge. On appeal, Tate argued that he had signed on for just an armed robbery and he never intended to commit a murder. He also argued that one of his codefendants likely fired the fatal shots. Testimony was presented at trial that Tate had a full scale IQ of 75. Additional evidence was presented post-trial that Tate is intellectually disabled.

• Name: Emmett Taylor
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Jefferson
• Date of birth: 4/25/1975
• Date of crime: 2/18/1997
• Summary: Emmett Taylor was convicted of the February 1997 murder of Marie Toscano during a robbery of the Marrero pharmacy where Toscano worked. During questioning, Taylor made a taped confession in which he said the shooting was accidental.

• Name: Michael Taylor
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: DeSoto
• Date of birth: 10/19/1978
• Date of crime: 1/7/1999
• Summary: Michael Taylor was convicted of murdering Chester Howell, a salesman at a DeSoto Parish Pontiac dealership, in January 1999. Taylor and his codefendant, Timothy Taylor (who is unrelated) stole the car they had test driven with Powell and used it in the commission of a bank robbery and high-speed chase in Iowa, where one of them shot and wounded a local police chief. They were caught after trying to cross the border into Mexico. The cases were moved to Winn Parish due to media coverage. On appeal, Taylor argued that the trial court erred in not suppressing certain evidence and that his sentence was disproportionate given that his codefendant was also convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life.

• Name: Lamondre Tucker
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Caddo
• Date of birth: 4/3/1990
• Date of crime: 9/12/2008
• Summary: Lamondre Tucker was convicted of the September 2008 murder of Tavia Sills, who was nearly five months pregnant with what she believed was his child. Tucker was 18 years old at the time of his arrest, and had an IQ of 74. Sills had gone on a ride with Tucker and then later Tucker returned without her, telling her mother that he had dropped her off at her sister’s house. Several days later, a fisherman found her body in a secluded pond in Shreveport. Tucker later said he had accidentally shot Tavia and led detectives to a gun that appeared to be the murder weapon. His attorneys argued that his age and intellectual disability should spare him from the death penalty.

• Name: James Tyler
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Caddo
• Date of birth: 4/26/1976
• Date of crime: 5/29/1995
• Summary: James Tyler was convicted of fatally shooting the manager of a fast-food restaurant during an armed robbery in May 1995. Two other shooting victims were not killed, and one of them later identified him as the shooter. Tyler was 19 at the times of his arrest. During questioning, Tyler claimed he had been too impaired by drugs to remember anything about the day of the crime. He also offered to sign a confession. At trial, the defense presented evidence that he had been physically and sexually abused as a child, and was seriously mentally ill.

• Name: Todd Wessinger
• Race/Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: East Baton Rouge
• Date of birth:  11/28/1967
• Date of crime: 11/19/1995
• Death penalty imposed: 6/26/1997
• Summary: Todd Wessinger was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of restaurant manager Stephanie Guzzardo, 27, and cook David Breakwell, 46 during a robbery of Calendar's restaurant in Baton Rouge in Novermber 1995. Wessinger was a former employee of the restaurant. He shot his former co-workers as they begged for their lives then fled the restaurant with about $7,000. Wessinger's death penalty was thrown out in 2015 due to ineffective assistance of counsel. It was later reinstated by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. The case was taken up twice by the U.S. Supreme Court. But they denied his appeal both times. The latest ruling was in 2018 when lawyers argued that during the penalty phase of his trial, jurors were not aware of mitigating evidence, including of a stroke Wessinger had as a child which left him with brain damage.

• Name: Donald Wright
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Parish where crime occurred: Lafayette
• Date of birth: 5/23/1968
• Date of crime: 12/12/1999
• Summary: Donald Wright, who lived in Minden, was convicted along with his girlfriend Lora Moseley, of the murder of 6-year old Heather White, who was Moseley’s daughter, in December 1999. White died after extensive abuse at the hands of both parents, according to court records. An investigator concluded that White suffered a fatal blow to the head. Both Wright and Moseley were convicted of first-degree murder; Wright received the death penalty and Moseley got life without parole. Wright's trial had been moved to Lafayette Parish due to publicity.