Supreme Court Keeps Texas Inmate on Death Row Despite Objections From Bench

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James Broadnax, who asked for a new trial based on racial discrimination grounds, will remain on death row for two murders.

Texas inmate James Broadnax will remain on death row without a new trial after the Supreme Court denied his petition Monday.In a new order list, the court said it was declining to hear Broadnax vs. Texas, despite objections from Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. They both said they 'would reverse the judgment' of the state's highest criminal court, the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals.

He told Newsweek that, if the Supreme Court had reversed judgment, like Sotomayor and Jackson wanted to, Broadnax would have been allowed 'to have a full trial and have an opportunity to prove that the prosecution blocked Black individuals from serving on the jury.

 

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