The Louisiana governor appeared on CNN's State of the Union yesterday, making news in his interview with host Candi Crowley. Here's the section of transcript dealing with the scheduled execution.
CROWLEY: And finally, governor, in Louisiana, the last I saw, there will be the execution of a man next week by lethal injection. He was found guilty of murdering his six-year-old step-son.
You are using in this lethal injection the same two chemicals that are now under scrutiny because of an Ohio execution where the man being executed was -- we were told it took ten minutes for him to die, writhing in convulsion. Are you comfortable with this execution going forward with this method of killing him?
JINDAL: Candy, three things. One, we're actually in front of federal court. We've submitted the two-drug protocol. A federal judge where in front of federal court district court as well as United States Supreme Court. So, the judge will have to decide whether we're allowed to proceed to fulfill the court's verdict. I will say this, we are looking at and we will likely support legislation in this session to give the Department of Corrections more options.
We have obviously -- we actually have a different protocol. We weren't able to use. We weren't able to get that drug, a one-drug protocol. So, we're likely to go to the legislators this year to ask them to give the Department of Corrections other options. Like many states, we're not always able to find and secure these drugs.
And so, we're going to go back to the legislature and say give us additional options. Where we stand with the execution that's coming up, we're in front of federal court. The Department of Corrections feels confident making make that case to the judge that this is a fairway to carry out the verdict of the court.
New Orleans Times-Picayune coverage is, "Jindal talks immigration, marijuana and the death penalty on CNN." by Julia O'Donoghue. There is a link to the video.
"Bobby Jindal: New death penalty drug that takes 26 minutes to kill is ‘fair’," is by David Edwards at Raw Story. It also excerpts the video.
Earlier coverage from Louisiana begins with the preceding post.
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