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Capital Prosecutions in One Louisiana Parish

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Today's New Orleans Times-Picayune carries the report, "Surge in death penalty prosecutions slows in Jefferson Parish," written by Paul Purpura.  Here are two excerpts from the lengthy article:After Louisiana reinstated the death penalty in 1975, Jefferson Parish juries sent 28 people to death row at Angola. Half of those inmates have been sent there since Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick Jr. took office in 1997. By the time his first six-year term ended, 10 people were sentenced to death. But what began as an aggressive pursuit of capital prosecutions has declined in recent years, leading court observers to question whether Connick is shying away from the death penalty or if Jefferson is mirroring a national trend...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 06, 2009 (boomark / email).