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Detailed examination of the death penalty in Louisiana

By Douglas A. Berman

The Shreveport Times today has this effective article, headlined "Louisiana death penalty: an eye for an eye or ineffective?," which provides a detailed examination of the death penalty in Louisiana.  The paper indicates that this piece is only "the first in a series of stories by The Times about Louisiana's death penalty" and that in future articles it "will explore reasons for an apparent slowdown of executions, the costs of seeking the death penalty and the increasing number of death row inmates who are exonerated of their crimes and those whose sentences are overturned." Here are excerpts from this first piece: The last execution in Louisiana was in May 2002. Leslie Dale Martin was put to death by lethal injection for the 1991 rape and killing of a 19-year-old college student...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 06, 2009 (boomark / email).