Justices rule 7-1 in favor of Timothy Tyrone Foster and find prosecutors kept African Americans off jury that convicted him of killing a white womanThe US supreme court on Monday delivered a stinging rebuke to the southern state of Georgia for having concocted an all-white jury to send a black man to death row, ruling that prosecutors intentionally skewed the process by striking out all prospective black jurors in an act of blatant racial discrimination.
The eight justices on the nation’s highest court voted by 7-1 to throw out the death sentence of Timothy Tyrone Foster and effectively order a retrial in a case that has been described as one of the most visibly egregious acts of racial discrimination in the American court system for many years. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com