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    Fredrick Domne Gradley - Louisiana


    Rita Rabalais


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    Sentenced to death for his role in the beating death of 82-year-old Rita Rabalais in 1994. The white victim had been repeatedly stabbed, slashed, and badly beaten by a group of nine black men, the so-called Jena Six. The youngest one was 16.

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    In 1997, the Louisiana Supreme Court affirmed Gradley's death sentence on direct appeal.

    www.lasc.org/opinions/97ka0641.opn.pdf

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    Gradley was removed from death row on 1st of April 2015.

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...wqUJILBInJ1unA

    I can't provide a source but it appears this was an Atkins case.

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