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Are Noose Ties Appropriate Attire in Death Penalty Cases?

By AAN Staff
january 16, 2003  10:03 am
Are Noose Ties Appropriate Attire in Death Penalty Cases?
This is not just a sartorial question in Jefferson Parish, La., where two prosecutors have been wearing their hand-painted neckties showing a hangman's noose and a grim reaper during capital punishment trials. After helping The New York Times break the story of the dubious prosecutorial neckwear, Katy Reckdahl goes deep into issues of lingering racism and the scars of history in Louisiana.
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