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By Jonathan Simor

Its been a busy week, but I would be remiss to let Campbell Robertson's fine story on murder, capital punishment, and wrongful conviction in post-Katrina New Orleans go by with out a comment. Early one morning in June 2006, when this city was only half full and in many areas still desolate from the flooding after Hurricane Katrina, five men were shot to death in an S.U.V. in the Central City neighborhood.The killings sent the city into an uproar, galvanizing politicians, who spoke of ?Hurricane Crime,? and adding urgency to the city?s request for hundreds of Louisiana National Guard soldiers to return and patrol the streets.The criminal case that followed was just as incendiary in many ways, and it ended this past August with a death penalty verdict, the first in a dozen years in a New Orleans murder case, against a 23-year-old man named Michael Anderson...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on March 03, 2010 (boomark / email).