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Kevin Johnson is scheduled to be executed by the state of Missouri on Nov. 29. A jury of six white and six Black members deadlocked on whether he was guilty of first-degree murder or a lesser charge. When he went back for a second trial, he ended up with just three Black jurors — and a guilty verdict of first-degree murder.
All-white juries continue to sentence Black defendants to death — because the legal system allows it.
It's illegal to eliminate a juror on the basis of race. But in practice, it's all too common
St. Louis — Police officers were called to the home of Orlando Harris on Oct. 15, nine days before he went on a shooting rampage inside a St. Louis high school. Harris’ mother had asked officers to re...
Newly declassified files expose the Foreign Office’s dirty tricks campaign to influence the knife-edge 1976 election result