The US Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 vote to overturn the capital murder conviction and death sentence of Terry Pitchford, a Black man on death row in Mississippi.
Pitchford, who was 18 when he was convicted for his role in the killing of a grocery store owner, had argued for two decades that his conviction was invalid. He claimed that the jury selection process was racially biased and that Black jurors were excluded from his trial.
The justices sided with Pitchford, agreeing with a lower court's ruling that the conviction and death penalty must be overturned. The case raised broader questions about racial bias within the criminal justice system.