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Death Penalty and All-White Juries | October 30, 2015 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS

November 4, 2015
On November 2, the Supreme Court hears arguments about race and juror selection in a Georgia death penalty case in which an African-American man was tried, convicted, and sentenced to die by an all-white jury. “What the court says about jury selection, and what it says about the reasons that prosecutors have to give for striking people of color from juries, that’s going to affect every case from now on,” says Stephen Bright, president of the Southern Center for Human Rights, who will argue the plaintiff’s case before the court.

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