Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office announced on Monday that it will take over defending the conviction and death sentence of Antoinette Frank, the former New Orleans police officer who killed two restaurant workers in a notorious triple homicide that shocked the city.
Murrill said in a statement that adopting Frank’s post-conviction case was part of a sweeping offer she’s made to every Louisiana district attorney to “take over defending in all of the death penalty cases through post conviction relief, federal habeas, and execution.”
Murrill said many on death-row have raised “the same or very similar” claims, and having her office respond will mean “courts will receive consistent briefings.”…