Senate Bill 430, which proposes the removal of gassing as a method to carry out the death penalty in Louisiana, failed to pass the House Administration of Criminal Justice Committee on Tuesday, May 21.
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A group called Jews Against Gassing went to the state Capitol on Holocaust Remembrance Day to try to put a stop to gas executions before they even begin.
After Dillard University President Rochelle Ford began her term last July, she visited the school’s shuttered National Center for Black-Jewish Relations, which was established in 1974 and closed in 1997,