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Antoinette Frank was a New Orleans police officer who betrayed her badge in one of the most shocking crimes in U.S. history. In 1995, she and her teenage boyfriend, Rogers Lacaze, carried out a brutal triple murder at the Kim Anh Restaurant—killing fellow officer Ronald Williams and two innocent siblings, Cuong and Ha Vu.
This story reveals how a sworn officer turned into a cold-blooded killer, her chilling trial, death sentence, and life on Louisiana’s death row.
Frank was convicted and sentenced to death in 1995 for the triple murder of a fellow police officer and two restaurant employees.
She is the only woman on death row in Louisiana,in October 2023, her appeal for clemency was denied by the Louisiana Pardon Board.
As of late 2024 and into 2025, the Louisiana Attorney General has been actively trying to move forward with executions, but Frank is not yet eligible because her legal appeals have not been exhausted.
A state judge accepted her appeal to overturn her death sentence in May 2025, and a new hearing has been ordered for December 2025,Due to the ongoing legal proceedings and appeals,no execution date has been set.
Antoinette Frank was convicted of a triple murder in 1995.
— the deaths of a fellow officer and two restaurant employees at the Kim Anh restaurant in New Orleans. She’s on death row in Louisiana.
Her clemency request was denied by Louisiana’s pardon board.
As of recently, she has ongoing appeals and post-conviction litigation.
Louisiana had resumed executions in 2025 (via nitrogen hypoxia) for other inmates…
But she was not among the ones executed. In fact, her legal case is continuing.
As of February 2025, no execution date has been set for Antoinette Frank.
She is still on death row, appealing her sentence via post-conviction relief.
In June 2025, Louisiana’s Attorney General Liz Murrill filed writs aiming to speed up executions for several death-row inmates, including Antoinette Frank.
Also in October 2025, the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled that the Attorney General can intervene in her death-penalty case if requested by local prosecutors.
On April 28 2025, a judge accepted her appeal to overturn her death sentence and ordered a new hearing in December 2025
So — no, Antoinette Frank has not been executed. She remains incarcerated under a death sentence, but her appeal process is ongoing, and a hearing has been scheduled.