WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday
gave a death row inmate in Georgia another chance to challenge his
conviction for murder based on racist comments by one of the trial
jurors.
Following Keith Tharpe's conviction for
murder and his death sentence, his lawyers produced an affidavit signed
by one of the jurors, Barney Gattie, who said "after studying the
Bible, I have wondered if black people even have souls."
Gattie also wrote in the documents that "there
are two types of back people: 1. Black folks and 2. (the N word)" and
that Tharpe "wasn't in the 'good' black folks category in my book."
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Source: NBC News
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