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Supreme Court backtracked on Black death row inmates’ racial bias claims, liberal justices say
NBC News via Yahoo News· 11 months agoLiberal Supreme Court justices say the conservative majority backtracked in a ruling on a Black...
The Supreme Court’s Right Flank Is Laying Groundwork to Dismantle Defendant Rights
Slate via Yahoo News· 8 months agoJustice Thomas has led the way in a willingness to overrule landmark Supreme Court decisions that...
Supreme Court Justices Give Heated Dissent Over Latest Racial Bias Ruling
The Root via Yahoo News· 11 months agoWhile everyone was going up about the Supreme Court’s block on President Joe Biden’s student loan...
Mississippi prosecutor who excluded Black jurors in Curtis Flowers case is resigning
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJACKSON, Miss. — A white Mississippi district attorney has resigned after more than 30 years on the...
15 Times Black Men Escaped Being Killed On Death Row
The Root via Yahoo News· 6 days agoPhoto: Associated Press, KOCO News According to the National Registry of Exonerations, more than half of the 3,300 people exoneration between 1989 and...
In Its New Episode, "Serial" Can't Catch Up With Its Own Story
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 2 years ago[INSERT 1] Early Monday afternoon, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa Phinn announced that...
Court doors closed to NAACP suit over Black juror denials
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA federal appeals court has found that the NAACP has no standing to sue a Mississippi prosecutor accused of routinely rejecting Black jurors in criminal cases. District Attorney Doug Evans has ...
Mississippi death row inmate’s conviction overturned by federal judge, racial bias cited
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 6 months agoA federal judge has overturned the death penalty conviction of a Mississippi man, finding a trial...
Man on death row, tried by same prosecutor in Curtis Flowers' case, will get a new trial
The Clarion Ledger via Yahoo News· 6 months agoTerry Pitchford, who had been the youngest prisoner on Mississippi's death row had his murder conviction and death sentence overturned by a federal judge.
Charges dropped against Baltimore man who stood trial 4 times for the same murder
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA Baltimore man accused of killing a security guard in 2015 was freed and had all charges dropped...