A legislative task force convened its first meeting this week to study changes in Louisiana law to allow the possibility of parole for some second-degree murder offenses.
The task force stems from legislation introduced last session by Sen. Mark Abraham, R-Lake Charles, that aimed to give judges some discretion in sentencing for second-degree murder, which currently comes with mandatory life without parole.
“Right now, we have a felony murder law … (with) people convicted of second-degree murder who did not commit the actual homicide, weren’t involved in planning a homicide, had no intent to commit that homicide,” Myers said, “but under the law as it stands now, they’re equally culpable.”
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