Mr Cox makes his case“ERIC MICKELSON: white man. Beverly Arthur: white woman.” In his musical drawl—which, in concert with his beseeching eyes and folksy acuity, makes him a formidable trial lawyer—Dale Cox lists some of the murderers for whom he and his colleagues have sought the death penalty. “Brandy Holmes: white woman.” The district attorney’s office of Caddo Parish doesn’t select capital cases by race, he insists; and so at least one of the allegations that have made its prosecutors among the most infamous in America—and made the contest to lead them so heated—is, Mr Cox maintains, unfounded.
The controversy, though, is real, and Mr Cox himself is its epicentre. The attention arose partly from an item on “60 Minutes”, a current-affairs TV show, about Glenn Ford, who spent 30 years on death row before new testimony led to his release in 2014; he died of cancer in June this year. But Mr Cox’s own comments about the case and about the death penalty, which he thinks should be used “more rather than less”, contributed, helping to make Caddo Parish a focus of national angst about race and justice....Continue reading
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