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The Shreveport City Council meeting Tuesday July, 25, 2023, at Government Plaza. The Shreveport Police Department, alongside other authorities, is examining the circumstances surrounding the ...
The eight-woman, four-man jury unanimously found Ray, 25, of Shreveport guilty-as-charged of second-degree murder. The 40 minutes of deliberation ended the weeklong trial.
When the prosecution seeks the death penalty, the sentence is decided by the jury. In case of a hung jury during the penalty phase of the trial, a life sentence is issued, even if a single juror opposed death (there is no retrial). [5] The governor may commute death sentences with advice and consent of the Louisiana Board of Pardons and Parole ...
List of death row inmates in the United States; List of juveniles executed in the United States since 1976; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2025; List of people executed in Texas, 2020–present; List of women executed in the United States since 1976
Seven people were shot, including Jacorvin Taylor, 32, who was fatally wounded.
Ford was assigned two attorneys by the state due to his inability to pay for a lawyer on his own. Both were selected from an alphabetical listing of lawyers from the local bar association. [ 5 ] The lead attorney was an oil and gas lawyer who had never tried a case, criminal or civil, before a jury. [ 5 ]
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Observers thought the case was marked by several flaws, and noted that his court-appointed defense lawyer had no experience in capital cases. As Bob Herbert wrote in 2007 in The New York Times, the lawyer "had never handled a murder case, much less a death penalty case. He kept his meetings with his client to a minimum and would later complain ...