John Bel Edwards tells board to consider clemency cases in push to empty death row [TheAdvocate]

In the latest salvo in a high-stakes political and legal drama, Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday directed the state Pardon Board to decide whether to grant clemency to nearly all of the inmates on Louisiana’s death row.

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