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The Advocate reports that a federal judge has provided approval on Louisiana's plan to provide air conditioning for death row at Louisiana State Penitentiary. Chief U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson issued the order Friday.

 

 

Jackson also ordered the immediate implementation of the plan, which includes installing air conditioning at the Angola prison. Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections spokeswoman Pam Laborde said in a statement that the agency will ask a federal appeals court to put Jackson’s order on hold while it is appealed.

“Given the significant issues involved in this litigation which have far-reaching effects on many correctional institutions in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi, the department intends to seek a thorough review of the trial court’s decision with the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals,” Laborde said.

Jackson toured the Angola prison in the summer of 2013 and ruled in December that heat indexes recorded on death row amount to cruel and unusual punishment. Jackson mandated that heat indexes not exceed 88 degrees on death row.

The state is appealing that Dec. 19 ruling.

 

 

 

 

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