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Notwithstanding Governor Roemer's own father, Charles E. Roemer, II having been a strong advocate for African-American Civil Rights in his own political career in Louisiana, Governor Roemer refused to consider a pardon for Tyler in a racially charged environment where David Duke was gaining popularity and rising to prominent political power.
Dec 15, 1989 · The Pardon Board voted 3 to 2 today to recommend that the Governor reduce the sentence to 60 years. If Mr. Roemer does so, Mr. Tyler would be eligible for parole in five years.
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Aug 17, 1989 · Gov. Buddy Roemer of Louisiana said today that he planned to commute the death sentence of a convicted murderer to life in prison without parole because of doubts that have been raised about...
May 17, 2021 · Roemer, who had been a strong supporter of civil rights throughout his career, refused to even meet with Duke. He finished fourth in the primary, only 1.2 percentage points out of the runoff.
Aug 4, 2023 · Nearly every prisoner on Louisiana's death row is asking Gov. John Bel Edwards to spare them from execution, after the governor recently said he is against the death penalty. But the state's ...
Jan 25, 1990 · Gov. Buddy Roemer today rejected the State Pardon Board's recommendation of clemency for Gary Tyler, a black civil rights advocate who says he was framed for the killing of a white...
May 17, 2021 · Published 9:49 AM PDT, May 17, 2021. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Buddy Roemer, a Harvard-educated reform-minded politician whose one tumultuous term as Louisiana’s governor was marked by bruising political battles over taxes, budgets and abortion, died Monday at age 77.
