Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana

Lethal injection enjoys an undeserved reputation as a humane way to kill. For years, advocates and medical professionals have maintained that the process can produce excruciating pain. In recent years, advocates have successfully halted executions in several jurisdictions through challenges to the way lethal injections are carried out. In some states, executions have been halteed pending a review of the state's lethal injection protocol. Moratoria have also resulted from rulings that bar executions because the lethal injection protocol was not adopted in the manner required by law, regardless of whether the lethal injection method causes severe pain.

Kristin Traicoff will engage in advocacy to challenge Louisiana's lethal injection protocol.

Traicoff graduated from Tulane University in 2001, with a degree in political science and environmental studies and from University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 2007. While in law school, she interned with the Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana and the Office of the Federal Defender in Oakland, California. She also participated in the Boalt Hall Death Penalty Clinic, whose alumni board she now chairs. After graduating from law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Lawrence K. Karlton of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.

New Orleans, LA