“Now, after two terms of Jindal, Louisiana has returned to a more centrist governor style” with John Bel Edwards, he said.
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He said he understands the political risks associated with granting clemency, but “when month after month becomes year after year of waiting - when the governor could release you to your family with just the stroke of a pen, but he chooses not to - you start to lose hope.”
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