All as innocent as the University of Alabama freshman, and the 18-year-old woman intending to go to nursing school, and the 37-year-old father of two sons, and the 11 other victims struck down on Bourbon Street in the early-morning hours of New Year’s Day.

The coffin of former President Jimmy Carter was transported on a horse-drawn caisson to the Capitol Rotunda, where Vice President Kamala Harris said his works “speak for him louder than any tribute we can offer.