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    I want to know when will he die. And how will he die? Will our family be allowed to watch him die?

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    Looking at Louisiana's execution history, it will probably be between 10-15 years before he can get an execution date. He would be executed by lethal injection. I don't know the specifics of the viewing process hopefully someone else here knows more about it.

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    Death penalty upheld for X-Box killer

    The path today was cleared for the execution of the Shreveport man convicted and sentenced to death for a triple homicide over an X-Box in October 2013.

    In a 7-0 unanimous decision, the Louisiana Supreme Court today upheld the death penalty conviction of Marcus Reed, 39, in the August 2010 deaths of 18-year-old Jarquis Adams, 20-year-old Jeremiah Adams, and 13-year-old Gene Adams.

    It took a Caddo Parish jury only 67 minutes to convict Reed of the murders, and after hearing a day-and-a-half of testimony, a little more than two hours to impose the death penalty.

    In its 72-page decision, the court denied a number of Reed’s charges, including one of racism. Reed pointed to the large number of death penalty sentences imposed by Caddo Parish juries during the years his case was making its way through the courts.

    But in their opinion, the jurists noted the defendant, the three victims and four of the jurors on the panel were African American.

    In another argument, Reed’s attorneys said prosecutors made impermissible references to religion during the penalty phase.

    The justices, however, wrote Reed’s attorneys made no objections regarding those allegations, adding the prosecutor only referenced religion on rebuttal in response to defense counsel’s references to the New Testament in his closing argument.

    Explaining their denial of that allegation, the justices wrote, “On the contrary, the prosecutor directly requested the jury leave religion out of their decision making process:

    ‘You know, what I don’t understand is why we can’t leave God out of this. I mean, the law does not talk about the Bible. The law does not talk about God. The law talks about aggravating circumstances and mitigating circumstances and it talks about the circumstances of the offense and it talks about the character and propensity of the defendant. But nowhere does it talk about the Bible. Nowhere does it talk about God.’

    Prosecuting attorneys were Caddo Assistant District Attorneys Dale Cox, Gia Prudhomme and Kelvin Rogers, and Reed was represented by Shreveport attorney Richard Gorley and Antonio Florence represented Reed. Caddo District Judge Kathryn Dorroh was the presiding judge.

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Reed's petition for certiorari. Justice Breyer dissented.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Louisiana
    Case Nos.: (2014-KA-1980)
    Decision Date: September 7, 2016
    Rehearing Denied: October 19, 2016

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....les/16-656.htm

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    U.S. top court snubs challenge to death penalty constitutionality

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a direct challenge to the constitutionality of the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment, rejecting an appeal by a Louisiana death row inmate convicted of killing three brothers.

    Liberal Justice Stephen Breyer objected to the court's decision not to hear the appeal by Marcus Reed, a drug dealer convicted in the 2010 shooting deaths of the three brothers, including a 13-year-old, over the theft of marijuana and an Xbox videogame console from his home.

    The court's action came at a time of deep divisions among the eight justices over the death penalty, with Breyer and other liberals expressing doubt about whether capital punishment remains acceptable under the U.S. Constitution four decades after the court reinstated it.

    Breyer, renewing his concerns over how the death penalty is administered in America, noted that Reed was sentenced to death in Louisiana's Caddo Parish, a county that he said has apparently sentenced more people to death per capita than any other county in the United States in recent history.

    Breyer wrote that "the arbitrary role that geography plays in the imposition of the death penalty," with certain places much more likely than others to use it, helped him "conclude that the court should consider the basic question of the death penalty's constitutionality."

    Reed, who is now 39 and was 33 at the time of the murders, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether the death penalty represented cruel and unusual punishment, forbidden by the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment.

    "The standards of decency have evolved since this court last considered the broad question of the constitutionality of capital punishment," Reed's petition said.

    Reed's lawyers argued that capital punishment undermines human dignity and public confidence in the fair administration of justice, adding that its use by states has dropped to such low levels that it can hardly be considered an indispensable part of the criminal justice system.

    The Supreme Court upheld the death penalty as constitutional in a landmark 1976 ruling, but has in more recent years imposed some limits in its application for juveniles and people with intellectual disabilities.

    The justices' starkly contrasting views on capital punishment have been on display in recent cases. Last week, after the court turned away a death row inmate's challenge to Alabama's lethal injection procedures, liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a dissent saying lethal injection might be the "most cruel" method yet.

    Reed was convicted in 2013 of murdering 18-year-old Jarquis Adams and his brothers Jeremiah, 20, and Gene, 13. The jury rejected his self-defense argument.

    According to prosecutors, Reed believed Jarquis Adams had stolen his Xbox and marijuana from his home in a rural, wooded area outside Shreveport, and used an assault rifle to gun down the brothers, spraying their car with bullets. Police arrived at the scene to find blood and gasoline pouring down the driveway, court papers said.

    The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld Reed's conviction and death sentence last September.

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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court DENIED Reed's petition for rehearing.
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    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

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