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Supreme Court rules for black man on death row
Edit Reuters 24 May 2016
The Supreme Court ruled 7-1 that prosecutors wrongly used race in the selection of an all-white jury in the murder case of a black man who spent decades on death row. ....
US Supreme Court sides with black death row inmate in racial bias case
Edit France24 24 May 2016
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday effectively overturned a black man’s 1987 conviction for murdering a white woman, rebuking Georgia prosecutors for unlawfully excluding black potential jurors in picking an all-white jury that condemned him to death ... ....
U.S. Supreme Court finds bias against black death row inmate convicted by all-white jury
Edit Canada Dot Com 24 May 2016US Supreme Court throws out death sentence from all-white jury
Edit Topix 24 May 2016
The Supreme Court ruled decisively in favor of a death-row inmate in Georgia on Monday, chastising state prosecutors for improperly keeping African-Americans off the jury that convicted him of killing a white woman. The justices ruled 7-1 in favor of death row inmate Timothy Tyrone Foster in underscoring the importance of rules they laid out in 1986 to prevent racial discrimination in the selection of juries ... ....
Mississippi high court is asked to toss 1990 death sentence
Edit San Francisco Chronicle 24 May 2016
(AP) — An attorney asked the Mississippi Supreme Court on Tuesday to toss out a death sentence for a man who has spent more than half his life on death row, saying he's mentally disabled and should not be executed for killing a family of four a quarter-century ago. In May 2011, Simon's execution was only four hours away when a federal appeals court ordered a halt to consider his mental disability claim ... ....
SCOTUS tosses murder conviction of black man who faced all-white jury
Edit CBS News 24 May 2016
A Georgia man on death row has a chance at a new trial after the Supreme Court came to a 7-1 decision in his favor. They ruled that prosecutors had unconstitutionally excluded African Americans from the jury that convicted him of rape and murder ... ....
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Edit NDTV 24 May 2016
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favour of an African American death row inmate who argued there was bias in the choosing of an all-white jury that convicted him of the 1986 murder of an elderl... ....
Supreme Court rules against use of all-white jury in death penalty case
Edit The Christian Science Monitor 24 May 2016
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled ......
Aishwarya opens up about Amitabh and Abhishek’s reaction to Sarbjit!
Edit Bollywood Life 24 May 2016
In the biopic on Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, Aishwarya played the pivotal role of his sister Dalbir Kaur, who fought a spirited battle ......
Why Pointing a Finger at Countries With the Death Penalty for Drugs Is Not Enough
Edit Huffington Post 24 May 2016
The death penalty for drug offences has received much attention recently ... When Harm Reduction International (HRI) launched our death penalty for drugs project in 2007, this issue was largely invisible in both the human rights and the drug policy discourse ... Another is to fund human rights advocates working in death penalty countries to influence public opinion and government policy, and to defend death row prisoners....
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