Jeff Landry to push for more death row execution methods

BY JESSICA WILLIAMS | Capitol News Bureau Editor ​ ​ ​

Death penalty: Jeff Landry will push state lawmakers to consider expanding execution methods used for death row prisoners in Louisiana, sources familiar with the plan say. James Finn has the story. 

A deficit in state government? The state was projecting a financial surplus when Gov. John Bel Edwards left last month. But Gov. Jeff Landry is now forecasting a deficit, Tyler Bridges and Finn report. Read on for more. 

New LED chief: Susan Bonnett Bourgeois, a former board chair of Greater New Orleans, Inc, will lead and likely restructure the state's top economic development agency, Meghan Friedmann reports.