BATON ROUGE – Death row inmates should not profit from the notability they’ve gained from their crimes, said Rep. Barbara Norton as she received unanimous Criminal Justice Committee support Wednesday for legislation authored by Sen. Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb.
Dorsey-Colomb, D-Baton Rouge, filed Senate Bill 565 in response to serial killer Derrick Todd Lee selling artwork on a website, Dark Vomit’s True Crime Macabre and Outsider Art Gallery.
The site, specializing in “serial killer and true crime collectibles,” had two of Lee’s works – a watercolor print of a panda chewing on bamboo and a watercolor of two swans on a lake – but currently is offering only the 9x12 swans drawing, complete with the mailing envelope stamped “Death Row” and with his two hand-written messages “Please don’t bend. Pictures inside.”
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