Supreme court sides with Mississippi man in racial bias case

Terry Pitchford, on death row for a murder conviction, argued that Black jurors were excluded from his trial

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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.