Antoinette Frank, the former New Orleans Police Department officer involved in the shooting death of a fellow officer and two others, will remain on death row.
The Louisiana Board of Pardons rejected Frank's appeal for clemency on Friday. According to our partners at nola.com, the board's vote was split, 2-2. One board member was absent.
Frank is was convicted of first-degree murder for her role in the 1995 robbery and triple murder at the Kim Ahn Noodle House in New Orleans East. Frank shot and killed two people, Cuong Vu, 17, and Ha Vu, 24, both of whom worked at the restaurant and were members of the family that owned the business.
Frank's accomplice, Rogers Lacaze, shot and killed Frank's fellow NOPD officer, Ronald Williams, II, who worked as a security guard at the restaurant. Lacaze was initially sentenced to death, but a judge later converted his sentence to life in prison without parole.
Investigators believe Frank and Lacaze planned the robbery to get revenge on Williams for shortchanging Frank on pay and security detail hours at the restaurant.
Williams's son, who was an infant when his father was slain, was one of several members of Williams's family to testify against granting Frank clemency, calling the idea "absurd."
