UPDATED at 6:45pm: Gerald Bordelon has been executed by lethal injection.
Gerald Bordelon, 47, is scheduled to be put to death by injection at the Louisiana State Penitentiary between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. for murdering his 12-year-old stepdaughter, Courtney LeBlanc, in 2002. According to officials from the Livingston Parish DA’s Office on up to the Governor’s Office, it doesn’t appear that there will be any attempt to stop the execution. Bordelon waived his appeals after his conviction and stated that he was ready to die for his crimes.
At the time he murdered Courtney Leblanc, Bordelon was out on parole from a previous sex crime. He kidnapped, raped and then murdered Leblanc. Bordelon was on the run for 11 days after the crime, but was apprehended by police at which time he led them to Leblanc’s body. It was located on the west bank of the Amite River under the 190 bridge. In his videotaped confession, he said that he abducted LeBlanc from his ex wife’s home with a knife and took her to Mississippi and raped her. Bordelon then took her back to Louisiana and killed her by strangulation.
When Governor Jindal was asked if he planned to intervene, he was quoted saying “In Louisiana, as across this country, the death penalty is reserved for only the most heinous, the most violent, the most atrocious crimes. I think justice will be done Thursday night.”
Bordelon will be the first person executed in Louisiana since 2002.





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