Terry Pitchford, who was 18 when convicted of murder, argued that Black jurors were excluded from his trial
The US supreme court on Thursday ruled in favor of Terry Pitchford, a Black man convicted of capital murder and on death row in Mississippi, who claimed that his conviction was due to the jury having racial bias.
The justices sided with Pitchford in a 5-4 vote.
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This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Adria R Walker.
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