Arbitrariness
,Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Oct 29, 2015
Capital punishment is dominating the discussion in the runoff election between James E. Stewart, Sr. and Dhu Thompson to succeed acting Caddo Parish, Louisiana District Attor…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,Nov 17, 2016
The Louisiana Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of Rodricus Crawford (pictured) and ordered that he be given a new trial in a controversial death penalty case that attracted national attention amid evide…
Arbitrariness
,Innocence
,Intellectual Disability
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Race
,Sep 23, 2016
The death-sentencing rate per homicide in Caddo Parish, Louisiana was nearly 8 times greater between 2006 and 2015 than the rest of the state, making a paris…
Arbitrariness
,Jul 15, 2015
Citing a backlash from his controversial statements about the death penalty, Dale Cox (pictured), the Interim District Attorney of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, a…
Innocence
,Prosecutorial Accountability
,Apr 18, 2017
Caddo Parish, Louisiana prosecutors formally dropped charges against Rodricus Crawford (pictured) on April 17, exonerating him in a controversial death penalty case that had attracted national attention amid evide…
Arbitrariness
,Race
,Aug 18, 2015
A new study of trials in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, revealed that potential jurors who were black were much more likely to be struck from juries than non-blacks. The results we…
