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Murrill seeks to reinstate death penalty for convicted killer

(The Center Square) — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is moving to reinstate the death penalty for Dale Dwayne Craig.

He is convicted of murdering an LSU freshman in 1992 when Craig was eight days shy of his 18th birthday.

Murrill filed a motion this week with the U.S. Supreme Court, explicitly targeting the court’s 2005 decision in Roper v. Simmons, which barred the execution of offenders wh…

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