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Supreme court sides with Mississippi man on death row in racial bias case
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Terry Pitchford, a Black man on death row in Mississippi, who argued that Black jurors were excluded from his trial. Pitchford, who was 18 at the time of his conviction for murder, claimed racial bias influenced his conviction.
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