Louisiana’s Color-Coded Death Penalty – The Editorial Board / NYT

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jail2The last time a white person in Louisiana was executed for a crime against a black person was in 1752, when a soldier named Pierre Antoine Dochenet was hanged after attempting to stab two enslaved black women to death with his bayonet.

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