President Joe Biden's commutation of dozens of federal death sentences does not sit well with Louisiana's law-and-order attorney general.
In a statement, Liz Murrill said that if the feds are incapable of securing "justice for victims of heinous crimes," then maybe "it’s long past time for the State to get it done."
That doesn't mean the state is thinking of pursuing its own capital cases against former killer NOPD cop Len Davis.
For one thing, the case is 30 years old.
"I'm sure many of the people who would be witnesses in that trial are long dead," said Loyola School of Law Professor Dane Ciolino.
Ciolino says any decision to prosecute Davis locally would have to be made by the district attorney.
"The attorney general's office really doesn't have any ability to bring such a prosecution," he explained. "That would fall to Jason Williams' Orleans Parish D.A. office."
Williams hasn't given any indication he's interested in pursuing death penalty cases.
Davis, convicted for ordering the murder of Kim Groves in 1994 because she filed a civil rights complaint against him, will spend the rest of his life in a federal prison.