The Supreme Court Shows No Signs of Slaking Its Thirst for Capital Punishment
A pair of death penalty decisions reaffirms a sad fact about the high court: There is a majority of justices who want to keep the executions coming.
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A pair of death penalty decisions reaffirms a sad fact about the high court: There is a majority of justices who want to keep the executions coming.
A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from a Black Texas death row inmate who argued he didn't get a fair trial because jurors who convicted him objected to interracial marriage.
A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from a Black Texas death row inmate who argued he didn't get a fair trial because jurors who convicted him objected to interracial marriage.
Three of the jurors in Andre Thomas's murder trial expressed opposition to the idea of interracial marriages.
The convicted man’s lawyer called the prospect of his execution “an ugly spectacle.”