The question of whether a black man scheduled for execution should
be spared because of racist comments by one of the jurors who sentenced
him to death is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A federal appeals panel declined to halt the
lethal injection of Keith Tharpe, who claims deliberations in his murder
trial were tainted by the views of a white man who, years later, used a
slur to describe him and ruminated on the "types of black people."
Tharpe's
legal team will now ask the nation's highest court to step in and stop
the execution scheduled for Tuesday in Georgia.
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