Judge sets execution dates for 2 Caddo death row inmates

SHREVEPORT, La. — A state district judge has signed death warrants setting execution dates for two men convicted of murders in Caddo Parish — one for the slayings of three brothers and another for the grisly knife slaying of a grandmother.

Caddo District Judge Donald Hathaway Jr. today set a June 4 execution date for Marcus Reed, 47, ordering him to be put to death for the slayings of three young men he mistakenly believed had stolen a video game.

Hathaway also set a May 28 execution date for Darrell Draughn, 53, condemning him to die for the murder of a neighbor who suffered more than five dozen knife wounds during an attack at her home in Shreveport…

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