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Antoinette Frank, the infamous New Orleans police officer and the only woman facing execution in Louisiana, will argue for mercy along with four condemned men on Friday as the Louisiana Board of Pardons weighs clemency hearings for the first in a historic batch of pleas from death-row.
The Louisiana Board of Pardons also rejected clemency hearings for Clifford Deruise and Danny Irish, who were seeking mercy before Gov. John Bel Edwards leaves office Jan. 8.
The Louisiana Board of Pardons rejected the clemency applications of all five death-row prisoners who came Friday hoping for mercy before Gov. John Bel Edwards leaves office.