US Supreme Court declines to hear 'racist juror' case

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WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Monday (Mar 18) declined to hear the case of a black man who was sentenced to death for murder by a jury which ...

WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the case of a black man who was sentenced to death for murder by a jury which included a white man who made racist remarks.

Juror Barney Gattie, who has since died, used racial slurs in an interview seven years after Tharpe's 1991 conviction and said he"wondered if black people even have souls."

 

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