 Men incarcerated at the Louisiana Penitentiary filed a class action lawsuit last year, alleging cruel and unusual punishment and forced labor in the prison's fields. John Scott reports. This Sunday, June the 7th, it's the 189th day of 2024. On this date in history, 1865, four people were hanged here in Washington, D.C. for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Lincoln. There was Powell, David Harold, George Atzelrod.