NATION IN BRIEF : LOUISIANA : Gov. Roemer Refuses to Block Execution
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Gov. Buddy Roemer denied clemency for a retarded man scheduled to go to the electric chair Thursday for murdering a state trooper at 17. Roemer rejected the recommendation of the Louisiana Pardon Board, which voted 3 to 2 Monday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, that he commute Dalton Prejean’s sentence for the 1977 slaying of Trooper Donald Cleveland to life in prison. The governor’s announcement came minutes after the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans turned down an appeal from Prejean, now 30.
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