Divided Supreme Court Overturns State Death Row Conviction

The Supreme Court delivered a major ruling Thursday in favor of Terry Pitchford, a death row inmate in Mississippi.

The nation’s highest court held in a narrow 5-4 decision that he was denied a fair opportunity to challenge the prosecution’s removal of black jurors during his trial.

The ruling in Pitchford v. Cain vacates Pitchford’s capital murder conviction continue reading …