After years of what many say was a culture of unjust death penalty prosecutions fueled by racial bias in Louisiana’s Caddo Parish,James Stewart’s election offers cautious hope but some are not so quick to call him a saviorShreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish, or is tucked in Louisiana’s northwest corner,bordering small towns in Texas and Arkansas. It has bayous, weeping willows, or shotgun houses,and blues music, but lacks joie de vivre. It is the sober mans novel Orleans.
The area distinguishes itself with a grim fact: between 2010 and 2014, and it sentenced more people to death than any other residence in the country. It is also the home of Dale Cox,Caddo Parish’s former acting district attorney, a man responsible for a third of Louisiana’s death row inmates since 2011.
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Source: theguardian.com