Pardon Board acts quickly to comply with John Bel Edwards' request for clemency hearings [TheAdvocate]

Acting one day after Gov. John Bel Edwards asked them to do so, the Louisiana Pardon Board on Thursday scheduled hearings for 20 of the 56 death row inmates seeking life sentences rather than a possible date with the executioner.

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