Morgan City Filmmaker Working to Tell the Story of the First Woman Executed in Louisiana

New Louisiana Legislation Will Limit Post-Conviction Appeals, Endangering Innocent Prisoners in an Attempt to Expedite Executions | Death Penalty Information Center

Recent leg­is­la­tion signed by Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry dras­ti­cal­ly restricts the abil­i­ty of pris­on­ers to chal­lenge their con­vic­tions, which those opposed to the law have argued could lead to the exe­cu­tion of inno­cent pris­on­ers. HB 675, signed into law in June 2025, impos­es strict time lim­its on post-con­vic­tion relief appli­ca­tions and intro­duces ​“aban­don­ment” rules that cut off appeal options for pris­on­ers who f…

Morgan City filmmaker working to tell the story of the first woman executed in Louisiana

BATON ROUGE — A Morgan City filmmaker is in the process of making a documentary about the first woman executed by the state of Louisiana.Nearly 100 years ago, a married woman named Ada Leouef was accused of having an affair with the family physician, Dr. Tom Dreher. Soon, Leouef and Dreher were sentenced to death. Matison Leblanc is telling Lebouef's story in her new project "Ada and the Doc.""Everybody on that trial knew Ada and thought she was…